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. |
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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 |
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.
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