High capacity spread spectrum channel
First Claim
1. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum transmitter, handling at least spread-spectrum-signals for use with a communications channel, comprising:
- demultiplexer means for demultiplexing message data into a plurality of demultiplexed-data signals;
generic means for generating a generic-chip-code signal;
a plurality of message means for generating a plurality of message-chip-code signals, wherein each message-chip-code signal is orthogonal to the other message-chip-code signals of plurality of message-chip-code signals, and is synchronized to the generic-chip-code signal;
a plurality of spreading means coupled to said demultiplexer means and said plurality of message means, respectively, for spread-spectrum processing the plurality of demultiplexed-data signals with the plurality of message-chip-code signals to generate a plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, respectively;
summer means for combining the generic-chip-code signal with the plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals;
transmitter means for transmitting the combined generic-chip-code signal and plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, on a carrier signal over said communications channel as a spread-spectrum-communications signal.
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Abstract
A high-capacity-spread-spectrum transmitter and receiver, for use over a communications channel. A demultiplexer demultiplexes message data into a plurality of demultiplexed-data signals. A transmitter-generic-chip-code generator generates a generic-chip-code signal and a plurality of transmitter-message-chip-code generators generate a plurality of message-chip-code signals which are "near-orthogonal" over a demultiplexed data bit. A plurality of EXCLUSIVE-OR gates, spread-spectrum processes the plurality of demultiplexed-data signals with the plurality of message-chip-code signals to generate a plurality of spread-spectrum signals. A combiner combines the generic-chip-code signal and the plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals. A receiver-generic-chip-code generator generates a replica of the generic-chip-code signal. A generic mixer recovers the carrier signal from the spread-spectrum-communications signal. A plurality of receiver-message-chip-code generators generate a plurality of replicas of the message-chip-code signals. A plurality of message mixers despreads the spread-spectrum-communications signal as a plurality of modulated-data signals. Tracking and acquisition circuits use the recovered carrier signal for synchronizing the replicas of the generic-chip-code signal to the recovered carrier signal. A plurality of envelope detectors demodulates the modulated-data signal as a plurality of received-demultiplexed data. A multiplexer multiplexes the plurality of received-multiplexed data as received data.
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26 Claims
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1. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum transmitter, handling at least spread-spectrum-signals for use with a communications channel, comprising:
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demultiplexer means for demultiplexing message data into a plurality of demultiplexed-data signals; generic means for generating a generic-chip-code signal; a plurality of message means for generating a plurality of message-chip-code signals, wherein each message-chip-code signal is orthogonal to the other message-chip-code signals of plurality of message-chip-code signals, and is synchronized to the generic-chip-code signal; a plurality of spreading means coupled to said demultiplexer means and said plurality of message means, respectively, for spread-spectrum processing the plurality of demultiplexed-data signals with the plurality of message-chip-code signals to generate a plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, respectively; summer means for combining the generic-chip-code signal with the plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals; transmitter means for transmitting the combined generic-chip-code signal and plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, on a carrier signal over said communications channel as a spread-spectrum-communications signal. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum receiver, handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, for simultaneously receiving a plurality of spread-spectrum channels of a received spread-spectrum-communications signal comprising:
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a plurality of spread-spectrum receivers using a plurality of orthogonal message-chip-code signals, respectively, each of said spread-spectrum receivers including message-spread-spectrum-processing means using one of the orthogonal-message-chip-code signals for despreading the received spread-spectrum-communications signal as one of a plurality of modulated-data signals, and demodulation means for demodulating one of the modulated-data signals as one of a plurality of demodulated signals, respectively; and multiplexer means for multiplexing the plurality of demodulated signals from said plurality of spread-spectrum receivers as received-message data. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6)
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7. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum receiver, handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, for simultaneously receiving a plurality of spread-spectrum channels of a received spread-spectrum-communications signal comprising:
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a plurality of spread-spectrum receivers, using a plurality of orthogonal message-chip-code signals, respectively, each of said spread-spectrum receivers including message-spread-spectrum-processing means using one of the orthogonal message-chip-code signals for despreading the respective spread-spectrum channel of the received spread-spectrum-communications signal as a modulated-data signal; demodulation means for demodulating each of the plurality of modulated-data signals as one of the plurality of demodulated signals, respectively; multiplexer means having a plurality of inputs for multiplexing a plurality of demodulated signals; and switching means coupled between an input of said demodulation means and each of said message-spread-spectrum-processing means and between an output of said demodulation means and the plurality of inputs of said multiplexer means, for switching said demodulation means between each of said message-spread-spectrum-processing means and each input of said multiplexer means, respectively. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 12)
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11. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum transmitter, handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, for use with a communications channel, comprising:
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a demultiplexer for demultiplexing message data into a plurality of demultiplexed-data signals; a plurality of transmitter message-chip-code generators for generating a plurality of orthogonal message-chip-code signals; a plurality of EXCLUSIVE-OR gates coupled to said demultiplexer and to said plurality of message-chip-code generators, respectively, wherein each EXCLUSIVE-OR gate spread-spectrum processes one of the plurality of demultiplexed-data signals with a respective message-chip-code signal to generate one of a plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, respectively; a combiner, coupled to said plurality of EXCLUSIVE-OR gates, for combining the plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals; a transmitter coupled to said combiner for transmitting the combined plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, on a carrier signal over said communications channel as a spread-spectrum-communications signal.
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13. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum receiver, handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, for simultaneously receiving a plurality of spread-spectrum channels of a received spread-spectrum-communications signal comprising:
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a receiver-generic-chip-code generator for generating a replica of the generic-chip-code signal; a plurality of spread-spectrum receivers, each of said spread-spectrum receivers including a receiver-message-chip-code generator for generating a message-chip-code signal, and a message mixer coupled to said receiver-message-chip-code generator and responsive to the message-chip-code signal for despreading the received spread-spectrum-communications signal as one of a plurality of modulated-data signals; demodulation means for demodulating the plurality of modulated-data signals as a plurality of demodulated signals; and a multiplexer for multiplexing the plurality of demodulated signals from said plurality of spread-spectrum receivers as received-message data. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A high-capacity-spread-spectrum receiver, handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, for simultaneously listening to a plurality of spread-spectrum channels of a received spread-spectrum-communications signal comprising:
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a plurality of spread-spectrum receivers, each of said spread-spectrum receivers including a receiver-message-chip-code generator for generating a message-chip-code signal, and a message mixer coupled to said message-chip-code generator and responsive to the message-chip-code signal for despreading the received spread-spectrum-communications signal as a modulated-data signal; demodulation means for demodulating the plurality of modulated-data signals as a plurality of demodulated signals, respectively; a multiplexer having a plurality of inputs for multiplexing the plurality of the demodulated signals; and a switching circuit coupled between an input of said demodulation means and each of said message mixers and between an output of said demodulation means and the plurality of inputs of said multiplexer, for switching said demodulation means between each of said message mixers and each input of said multiplexers, respectively. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for transmitting spread spectrum conference calls, and for handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, comprising the steps of:
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demultiplexing message data as a plurality of demultiplexed-data signals; generating a plurality message-chip-code signals; spread-spectrum processing the plurality of demultiplexed-data signals with the message-chip-code signals, respectively, to generate a plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals, wherein the plurality of demultiplexed-data signals and the plurality of message-chip-code signals are synchronized to the generic-chip-code signal; combining the plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals; and transmitting the combined plurality of spread-spectrum-processed signals on a carrier signal over said communications channel as a spread-spectrum-communications signal.
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24. A method for simultaneously listening to a plurality of spread-spectrum channels of a spread-spectrum communications signal, and for handling at least 17 spread-spectrum-processed signals, comprising the steps of:
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generating, for each spread-spectrum channel, a replica of the message-chip-code signal synchronized to the replica of the generic-chip-code signal; despreading, for each spread-spectrum channel, using the replica of the message-chip-code signal, the spread-spectrum channel of the spread-spectrum-communications signal as a modulated-data signal; demodulating, for each spread-spectrum channel, the modulated-data signal as a demodulated signal; and multiplexing the plurality of demodulated signals from said plurality of spread-spectrum receivers as received-message data. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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