US 6,983,162 B2
Method for enhancing the communication capability in a wireless telecommunication system
Pradeep Garani, Bangalore (India); Mathieu Villion, Toulouse (France); Michael Kotzin, Buffalo Grove, Ill. (US); and Ray Owen, Bath (United Kingdom)
Assigned to Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Ill. (US)
Appl. No. 10/489,230
PCT Filed May 27, 2002, PCT No. PCT/EP02/05829
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 25, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/026231, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 27, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 01402371 (EP), filed on Sep. 14, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2005/0009524 A1, Jan. 13, 2005
Int. Cl. H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/15 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01); H04Q 7/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—518 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of enhancing a communication capability of a communication unit operating in a communication system that facilitates communication to and/or from a plurality of communication units, the method comprising the step of:
operably coupling a first communication unit to one or more neighboring communication units such that said communication unit is able to utilize at least one operational capability of one or more of its neighboring communication units to enhance communication to and/or from said first communication unit;
failing to decode, by said first communication unit, information sent to said first communication unit; and, in response to said step of failing
requesting by said first communication unit whether any of said one or more selected neighboring communication units received such information; and
receiving said information, forwarded in response to said request, from said one or more selected neighboring communication units.