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US 8,134,912 B2Granted
Apparatus, systems and methods adapted for opportunistic forwarding of uplink short messages in wireless metropolitan area networks
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsQinghua Li, Ozgur Oyman, Xintian E. Lin, Hujun Yin
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Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a subscriber station (SS) operable to communicate with a base station (BS) and at least one additional subscriber station (SS) in a wireless metropolitan area network, wherein the at least one additional SS attempts to overhear a first message from the SS and piggy back a second message for the overheard message from the SS's uplink data to the BS with its uplink data.
Claims23
An apparatus, comprising:
- a subscriber station (SS) operable to communicate with a base station (BS) and an additional SS in a wireless metropolitan area network, wherein the SS attempts to overhear a first uplink message from the additional SS to the BS and piggy back a second uplink message, wherein the second uplink message is sent in an uplink with the SS's uplink data to the BS and includes the overheard first uplink message.
A method, comprising:
- communicating by a first subscriber station (SS) with a base station (BS) and a second SS in a wireless metropolitan area network and attempting by the first SS to overhear a first message from the second SS and piggy back a second message for the overheard message from said first SS's uplink to the BS with the first SS's uplink data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.