General Electric Company

Alan John Owan

Matthew George Grubis

Neal John Seidl

Louis Martin Frigo

Peter Arndt

Syedsaad Ali

Lee Zielinski

Peter Jager

Karina Carvalho-Bond

Examples of selectively transmitting redundant data over a wireless network are provided. One example includes initializing a first wireless virtual interface and a second wireless virtual interface, each wireless virtual interface communicating with a network using resources of the wireless hardware device and transmitting data from the first wireless virtual interface to the network via a first channel to a first access point of the network. The example further includes transmitting a selected amount of redundant data from the second wireless virtual interface to the network via a second channel to a second access point of the network, the selected amount being based on channel metrics of one or more of the first channel and the second channel.

Wireless interface virtualization

The present application includes a system and method that provisions at least two (2) receivers in a topology that allows each receiver to acquire wireless communication signals through different diverse antenna fields. Each receiver acquires the signal, and demodulates, decodes and sends data to the data terminal component. The data terminal component resolves packet alignment issues and selects the best data. This improves system reliability and reduces the system susceptibility to data corruption or loss of data due to signal fading that might occur on a single antenna field. Provisioning a wireless system in this manner reduces the likelihood that the same fading phenomena, resulting from either multipath and/or shadowing affects, impair signal reception causing data dropout or loss of data.

System and method of enhanced quality of service of wireless communication based on redundant signal reception on two or more antenna diversity inputs

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Alan John Owan