Patent ID: 8363590

Claim:
A physical layer repeater for conducting a physical layer repeating operation, the physical layer repeating operation including receiving a modified protocol signal on a first channel associated with an access point (AP), and retransmitting a modified version of the modified protocol signal on a second channel different from the first channel, the physical layer repeater comprising: a transceiver, a baseband modulator/demodulator (modem) coupled to the transceiver; and a processor coupled the transceiver and the baseband modem, the processor configured to: demodulate the modified protocol signal to obtain a first identifier associated with the AP and a first channel identifier associated with the first channel in an unmodified portion thereof and a unique identifier in a modified portion thereof; and retransmit the unique identifier and a second channel identifier associated with the second channel in a modified version of the modified protocol signal on the second channel and prevent the retransmission of the first identifier and the first channel identifier on the second channel.