Patent ID: 7962095

Claim:
A partner relay system for use in a communication system comprising a first transceiver and at least one second transceiver in which forward link transmissions occur in a downlink direction from the first transceiver to the at least one second transceiver and reverse link transmissions occur in an uplink direction from the at least one second transceiver to the first transceiver, the partner relay system comprising: a first relay adapted to receive a first signal in the downlink direction on a first wireless transmission resource, perform a first signal translation on the first signal to a second transmission resource, and re-transmit the first signal in the downlink direction on the second wireless transmission resource; a second relay in a spaced arrangement from said first relay adapted to receive the first signal in the downlink direction on the second wireless transmission resource from the first relay, perform a second signal translation to re-translate the first signal to the first wireless transmission resource, and re-transmit the first signal in the downlink direction; wherein the first wireless transmission resource is a transmission resource allocated for forward link transmissions from the first transceiver, and the second wireless transmission resource is a transmission resource allocated for reverse link transmissions to the first transceiver.