Method for routing via access terminals
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1. In a wireless communication system including an access terminal and at least two base stations, a method for providing a communications path between a first base station and a second base station via the access terminal comprising the steps of:
- providing the access terminal with a transmission/reception capability complementary with that of both the first and second base stations; and
causing the access terminal to receive a message transmitted by the first base station and in turn retransmit the message to the second base station.
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An access-terminal routing methodology is provided that may be used to enable a wireless, meshed backhaul between base stations using existing wireless-access resources (time, bandwidth, code-space, power), protocols, and base station infrastructure. Accordingly, the invention provides a means to extend the coverage of existing networks by adding standalone base stations without wired or specialized wireless backhaul.
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1. In a wireless communication system including an access terminal and at least two base stations, a method for providing a communications path between a first base station and a second base station via the access terminal comprising the steps of:
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providing the access terminal with a transmission/reception capability complementary with that of both the first and second base stations; and causing the access terminal to receive a message transmitted by the first base station and in turn retransmit the message to the second base station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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- 6. An access terminal established to concurrently transmit via a wireless medium two or more independent streams of data to two or more base stations, each data stream being transmitted to a different base station.
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