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Communications system and method

  • US 7,061,883 B2
  • Filed: 08/10/2001
  • Issued: 06/13/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A communications system, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of nodes, each node having;

    receiving means for receiving via an antenna a signal transmitted by wireless transmitting means;

    transmitting means for wireless transmission of a signal via an antenna; and

    ,means for determining if a signal received by said node includes information for another node and causing a signal including said information to be transmitted by said transmitting means to another node if said received signal includes information for another node;

    each node having one or more substantially unidirectional point-to-point wireless transmission links, at least some of the nodes having plural substantially unidirectional point-to-point wireless transmission links which share at least one of a receiver of the receiving means and a transmitter of the transmitting means, each of said links being to one other node only, at least some of the nodes being the origination and termination point of user traffic.

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