Patent ID: 7039357

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, comprising: positioning a first plurality of slave transceivers within a region; positioning a second plurality of slave transceivers within the region in positions spatially separated from the positions of the first plurality of slave transceivers; receiving, at the first plurality and at the second plurality of slave transceivers, a reverse radio frequency (RF) signal generated by a mobile transceiver within the region, and generating respective first and second slave signals responsive thereto, wherein each of the first and second slave signals are representative of the reverse RF signal, and wherein the first slave signal is distinguishable from the second slave signal; receiving, at a first master unit the first slave signal, and generating a first master signal, representative of the reverse RF signal, responsive thereto; receiving, at a second master unit, the second slave signal, and generating a second master signal, representative of the reverse RF signal, responsive thereto; conveying the first and second master signals separately to a base station transceiver subsystem (BTS) external to the region; and processing the first and second master signals conveyed to the BTS so as to recover information contained in the reverse RF signal.