US 7,502,407 B2
Wireless communication and wireless communication apparatus
Ren Sakata, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan); Syuichi Sekine, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan); Mutsumu Serizawa, Tokyo (Japan); Hiroki Shoki, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan); Hiroshi Tsurumi, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan); Shuichi Obayashi, Fort Lee, N.J. (US); Tomoko Adachi, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan); Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan); and Tsuguhide Aoki, Kanagawa-Ken (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/877,936.
Application 11/877936 is a continuation of application No. 10/440115, filed on May 19, 2003, granted, now 7,319,714.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-143546 (JP), filed on May 17, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2008/0049665 A1, Feb. 28, 2008
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 17/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 375—211  [375/267; 375/299; 375/347] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless communication method which transmits and receives a signal by using a plurality of wireless apparatuses, comprising:
forming a first wireless apparatus group having a plurality of transmitting apparatuses, each transmitting a wireless signal based on a first control signal, said first wireless apparatus group forming a first ad-hoc network between said transmitting apparatuses;
forming a second wireless apparatus group having a plurality of destination apparatuses, each receiving the wireless signal transmitted from said first wireless apparatus group, said second wireless apparatus group transmitting and receiving the wireless signal received by said destination apparatuses based on a second control signal, and said second wireless apparatus group forming a second ad-hoc network between said destination apparatuses different from said first ad-hoc network; and
forming a relay apparatus group having a plurality of relay apparatuses which receives the wireless signal transmitted from said first wireless apparatus group, and transmits the received wireless signal,
wherein said second wireless apparatus group receives the wireless signal transmitted from said relay apparatus group based on said second control signal.