Patent ID: 8179841

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a plurality of wireless transceivers in communication with each other, the wireless transceivers each having an operating range wherein transceivers can transmit data packets; and a plurality of wireless access points as the wireless transceivers and a network controller, the wireless access points configured to enable a plurality of wireless clients to wirelessly connect to the wireless access points; wherein the wireless transceivers are configured to simultaneously transmit encoded data transmissions to multiple co-channel transceivers in overlapping operating ranges and wherein transceivers receiving multiple data transmissions from dissimilar transceivers are configured to decode collided data transmissions resulting in successful data reception; and wherein the wireless access points are configured to encode data packets destined for one or more of the wireless clients with a collision coding scheme provided by the network controller so that wireless data packets concurrently transmitted from at least two wireless access points colliding in air can be decoded at the wireless clients with the collision coding scheme so that transmitted data packets are not affected by collisions with another data packet.