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Rain fade mitigation in a data transmission system

  • US 6,307,833 B1
  • Filed: 02/16/1999
  • Issued: 10/23/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A data broadcast system for distributing data to one or more remote locations in a rain fade environment, comprising:

  • a transmitting processor for forming data packets comprising data to be transmitted and forward error correction bits;

    a data distribution system for transmitting the data packets to one or more receivers located at remote locations, which data packets are transmitted at a relatively slow transmission rate such that the time required to transmit the data to the one or more receivers is greater than or equal to the time necessary to transmit the data plus an amount of time sufficient to allow data reconstruction in the presence of a rain fade event, and the receivers receiving the data packets and processing the received data packets using forward error correction processing to reconstruct the original data.

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