Ultra-wideband pulse modulation system and method

• US 6,781,530 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2003
• Issued: 08/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Pulse-Link Incorporated
• Inventors: Moore, Steven A.
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY
• Application Number:
  US10/747,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20040140917A1
• Time in Patent Office: 239 Days
• Field of Search: 341/107, 341/50, 341/67, 341/65, 341/87, 341/95, 375/239
• US Class Current: 341/107
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 5/08 Code representation by pulse width
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7163 using impulse radio

Abstract

An ultra-wideband pulse modulation apparatus, system and method is provided. The pulse modulation method increases the available bandwidth in an ultra-wideband, or impulse radio communications system. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a pulsed modulation system and method that employs a set of different pulse transmission, or emission rates to represent different groups of binary digits. The modulation and pulse transmission method of the present invention enables the simultaneous coexistence of the ultra-wideband pulses with conventional carrier-wave signals. The present invention may be used in wireless and wired communication networks such as CATV networks.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting data, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a group of data;

minimizing a probability of occurrence of a group of N binary values in the group of data; and

assigning an elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate to at least one group of N binary values having an elevated probability of occurrence.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of minimizing the probability of occurrence of the group of N binary values comprises eliminating the group of N binary values from the group of data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of minimizing the probability of occurrence of the group of N binary values comprises:

eliminating the group of N binary values from the group of data so that only 2^x−

1 groups of N binary values are assigned to an elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the group of N binary values is a group of bits selected from a group consisting of:

a 4-bit group, a 6-bit group, a 8-bit group, a 16-bit group, a 32-bit group, a 64-bit group and a 128-bit group.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate may range between about 100 million pulses per second to about 1 billion pulses per second.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the pulses are selected from a group consisting of:

ultra-wideband pulses and impulse radio pulses.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitted data is selected from a group consisting of:

telephony data, high-speed data, video data, television data, Internet communication data and audio data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is transmitted through a media that is selected from a group consisting of:

air, an optical fiber ribbon, a fiber optic cable, a single mode fiber optic cable, a multi mode fiber optic cable, a twisted pair wire, an unshielded twisted pair wire, a plenum wire, a PVC wire, a coaxial cable, and an electrically conductive material.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is transmitted substantially simultaneously with a wire network communication signal.

10. A computer program product for directing a general purpose digital computer to perform a desired function comprising:

a set of computer readable instructions for minimizing a probability of occurrence of a group of N binary values in a group of data; and

a set of computer readable instructions for assigning an elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate to at least one group of N binary values having an elevated probability of occurrence.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein minimizing the probability of occurrence of the group of N binary values comprises a set of computer readable instructions for eliminating the group of N binary values from the group of data.

12. The computer program product claim 10, wherein minimizing the probability of occurrence of the group of N binary values comprises:

a set of computer readable instructions for eliminating the group of N binary values from the group of data so that only 2^x−

1 groups of N binary values are assigned to an elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the group of N binary values is a group of bits selected from a group consisting of:

a 4-bit group, a 6-bit group, a 8-bit group, a 16-bit group, a 32-bit group, a 64-bit group and a 128-bit group.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate may range between about 100 million pulses per second to about 1 billion pulses per second.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the pulses are selected from a group consisting of:

ultra-wideband pulses and impulse radio pulses.

16. A method of transmitting data, the method comprising the steps of:

means for providing a group of data;

means for minimizing a probability of occurrence of a group of N binary values in the group of data; and

means for assigning an elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate to at least one group of N binary values having an elevated probability of occurrence.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of means for minimizing the probability of occurrence of the group of N binary values comprises means for eliminating the group of N binary values from the group of data.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of means for minimizing the probability of occurrence of the group of N binary values comprises:

eliminating the group of N binary values from the group of data so that only 2^x−

1 groups of N binary values are assigned to an elevated electromagnetic pulse transmission rate.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the group of N binary values is a group of bits selected from a group consisting of:

a 4-bit group, a 6-bit group, a 8-bit group, a 16-bit group, a 32-bit group, a 64-bit group and a 128-bit group.