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PHYSICAL LAYER REPEATER WITH ROAMING SUPPORT BASED ON MULTIPLE IDENTIFIERS

  • US 20100165910A1
  • Filed: 05/31/2007
  • Published: 07/01/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. 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.

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