Patent ID: 8837297

Claim:
A method operative in a communications system comprising a plurality of transceivers, including a first transceiver operative to transmit data packets to at least a second and a third transceiver in the system, comprising, at least at said second transceiver: receiving and storing a first data packet transmitted from the first transceiver; transmitting to the first transceiver a quality value representative of the reception quality of one or more data packets received by the second transceiver, for use by the first transceiver to modify its data transmissions; listening for data packets intended both for itself and for at least said third transceiver transmitted from the first transceiver; receiving, from the first transceiver, at least one composite packet comprising a combination of data packets intended for both itself and for at least said third transceiver jointly coded together into a single composite packet, wherein the data packets in the combination are selected based on the quality value; and decoding the composite packet by using the first received data packet.