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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1996
Loeke Brederveld, Meerkerk, NL;
Jan Hoogendoorn, Veenendaal, NL;
Hendrik Moelard, Maarssen, NL;
Leo Monteban, Nieuwegein, NL;
Rienk Mud, Wijk bij Duurstede, NL;
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
For use in a wireless computer network having a radio relay capable of transmitting messages, a system and method, operable with the radio relay, for selectively repeating a unicast message received from a source end-station only upon some indication that a destination end-station has not received the message. The system includes: (1) a transceiver that receives the unicast message from the source end-station and (2) control circuitry, coupled to the transceiver, that determines whether the destination end-station has received the unicast message and causes the transceiver to refrain from repeating the unicast message if the destination end-station has received the unicast message, the radio relay thereby freed from repeating already-received unicast messages.