ENHANCED PILOT SIGNAL
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1. A method of transmitting signals comprising:
- transmitting signal waveforms from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from at least two different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension.
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Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of transmitting signals is provided. Signal waveforms are transmitted from at least two respective sectors. The at least two respective sectors are from at least two different sets of a superset of sectors. The transmitted signal waveforms include signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension. An advantage of such an embodiment, for example, is reduced signal interference.
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65 Claims
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1. A method of transmitting signals comprising:
transmitting signal waveforms from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from at least two different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of receiving signals at a position location comprising:
receiving at least two respective signal waveforms having been transmitted from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method of reducing interference between signal transmissions, said method comprising:
emanating signal transmissions from a variety of locations, the signal transmissions being nearly mutually orthogonal along a particular signal dimension, said locations being partitioned into a distinct number of subgroups. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. An apparatus comprising:
a signal transmitter arranged to emanate signal transmissions from a location, the signal transmissions to be emanated in a manner to produce nearly mutually orthogonal along a particular signal dimension with signal transmission emanating from one or more other locations, said locations being partitioned into a distinct number of subgroups. - View Dependent Claims (44)
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45. A mobile station comprising:
a receiver operable to process at least two respective signal waveforms having been transmitted from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47)
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48. An apparatus comprising:
- a transmitter arranged to transmit signal waveforms from at least one sector location, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension with signal waveforms to be transmitted from one or more other sector locations, said at least two respective sector locations being from at least two different sets of a superset of sector locations.
- View Dependent Claims (49, 50)
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51. An apparatus comprising:
means for transmitting signals;
said means for transmitting signals arranged to emanate signal transmissions from a location, said means for transmitting signals comprising means for producing nearly mutually orthogonal signal transmissions along a particular signal dimension with signal transmissions from one or more other locations, said locations being partitioned into a distinct number of subgroups.- View Dependent Claims (52)
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53. A mobile station comprising:
means for receiving at least two respective signal waveforms and means for processing said at least two respective signal waveforms, said at least two respective signal waveforms having been transmitted from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension. - View Dependent Claims (54, 55)
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56. An apparatus comprising:
- means for transmitting signals;
said means for transmitting signals arranged to transmit signal waveforms from at least one sector location, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension with signal waveforms to be transmitted from one or more other sector locations, said sector locations being from at least two different sets of a superset of sector locations. - View Dependent Claims (57)
- means for transmitting signals;
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58. An article comprising:
- a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, if executed, direct a computing platform to transmit signal waveforms from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from at least two different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension.
- View Dependent Claims (59, 60)
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61. An article comprising:
- a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, if executed, direct a computing platform to process at least two respectively received signal waveforms having been transmitted from at least two respective sectors, said at least two respective sectors being from different sets of a superset of sectors, the transmitted signal waveforms comprising signal waveforms at least nearly mutually orthogonal at least along a particular signal dimension.
- View Dependent Claims (62, 63)
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64. An article comprising:
- a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, if executed, direct a transmitter to transmit from a location signal transmissions nearly mutually orthogonal along a particular signal dimension with signal transmissions to be transmitted from one or more other locations, said locations being partitioned into a distinct number of subgroups.
- View Dependent Claims (65)
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