US 7,577,124 B2
Relay apparatus, terminal apparatus and relay method
Hidekuni Yomo, Kamakura (Japan); Yoshinori Kunieda, Ota-ku (Japan); Yuuri Yamamoto, Nakano-ku (Japan); and Yoshihito Kawai, Hodogaya-ku (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/942,122.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-323674 (JP), filed on Sep. 16, 2003; and application No. 2004-228562 (JP), filed on Aug. 04, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0058104 A1, Mar. 17, 2005
Int. Cl. H04Q 7/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/413 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 370—338  [370/445] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A relay apparatus for relaying information signals transmitted by radio at the same frequency, comprising:
a reception section that receives a relay control signal which notifies a relay time which includes a start time at which the relay of said information signals starts and a continuation time during which relay continues for relaying said information signals before transmitting said information signals; and
a relay section that relays said information signals during the relay time notified by said relay control signal.