IP Library Granted Patent US 7,760,792
Granted Patent B2
US 7,760,792 · App. 09/759,425 · Granted Jul 20, 2010

Spread spectrum electromagnetic signals

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Patent No.
US 7,760,792
App. No.
09/759,425
Granted
Jul 20, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

An assembly of simultaneously transmitted electrically generated signals, which contains a subset of binary spreading-code sequences that are members of a larger set of binary spreading-code sequences available to a particular node of a multi-node communication network. All sequences in the set of spreading-code sequences available to the particular node of the network can be generated by the same configuration of two linear-feedback binary shift registers, where feedback taps of the two linear-feedback binary shift registers correspond to primative polynomials of the same degree over GF(2), the field of two elements.

Claims (20)

1. A mobile transmitting apparatus for transmitting information in a multi-node communication network, comprising:

an orthogonal code sequence generator generating a subset of orthogonal code sequences, said subset of orthogonal code sequences being selected from a plurality of subsets of a set of orthogonal code sequences associated with the transmitting apparatus; and

a transmitter for simultaneously transmitting first signals to a first node during a first time interval and simultaneously transmitting second signals to said first node during a second time interval, said first signals including a first subset of said subset of orthogonal code sequences and said second signals including a second subset of said subset of orthogonal code sequences not identical with said first subset, wherein at least one of said first and second subsets from the set of almost orthogonal code sequences includes more than one orthogonal code sequence.

2. The mobile transmitting apparatus of claim 1 wherein said first subset contains two or more code sequences.

3. The mobile transmitting apparatus of claim 1 wherein said first subset contains two or more code sequences and said second subset contains two or more code sequences.

4. The mobile transmitting apparatus of claim 1 wherein a code sequence from said first subset is based upon a particular data rate.

5. The mobile transmitting apparatus of claim 1 wherein a code sequence from said first subset is based upon a first data rate and a code sequence from said second subset is based upon a second data rate different from said first data rate.

6. The mobile transmitting apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first signals comprise simultaneously transmitted I and Q signals configured to respectively carry data information and control information.

7. The mobile transmitting apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a modulator for modulating the first subset and the second subset onto corresponding carriers of the same frequency having different phases.

8. A transmitting apparatus for transmitting information in a multi-node communication network, comprising:

an almost orthogonal code sequence generator that generates a subset of almost orthogonal code sequences and an almost orthogonal code sequence, said subset of almost orthogonal code sequences being selected from a plurality of subsets of a set of almost orthogonal code sequences associated with a mobile receiving apparatus; and

a transmitter for simultaneously transmitting to said mobile receiving apparatus first signals during a first time interval and simultaneously transmitting to said mobile receiving apparatus second signals during a second time interval, said first signals including said almost orthogonal code sequence and a first subset of said subset of almost orthogonal code sequences and said second signals including said almost orthogonal code sequence and a second subset of said subset of almost orthogonal code sequences not identical with said first subset, wherein at least one of said first and second subsets from the set of almost orthogonal code sequences includes more than one almost orthogonal code sequence.

9. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 wherein a code sequence from said first subset is based upon a first data rate and a code sequence from said second subset is based upon a second data rate different from said first data rate.

10. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 wherein said first subset contains two or more code sequences.

11. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 wherein said first subset contains two or more code sequences and said second subset contains two or more code sequences.

12. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 wherein a code sequence from said first subset is based upon a particular data rate.

13. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 wherein a code sequence from said first subset is based upon a first data rate and a code sequence from said second subset is based upon a second data rate different from said first data rate.

14. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 wherein the first signals comprise simultaneously transmitted I and Q signals configured to respectively carry data information and control information.

15. The transmitting apparatus of claim 8 further comprising a modulator for modulating the first subset and the second subset onto corresponding carriers of the same frequency having different phases.

16. The transmitting apparatus of claim 15 wherein the modulator uses phase shift keying (PSK).

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