Patent ID: 8121058

Claim:
On a wireless radio network comprising a plurality of transceivers of which at least one transceiver is a base station and at least one transceiver is configured as a simplex repeater, a method of repeating wireless messages comprising the steps of: (a) said simplex repeater waiting for an incoming message; (b) said simplex repeater receiving an incoming message; (c) determining whether the source of said message is a base station; (d) if said source is a base station, determining whether said message is a broadcast message or has a destination address found in a repeat list of addresses, and if said message is a broadcast message or has an address found in said repeat list, repeating said message and returning to step (a), and otherwise, returning to step (a) without repeating said message; and (e) if said source is not a base station, determining whether said destination address of said message is found in said repeat list, and if said message has an address found in said repeat list, returning to step (a) without repeating said message, and otherwise, repeating said message and returning to step (a).