Content differentiated hierarchical modulation used in radio frequency communications
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1. A method for transmitting information to user equipment from a first of at least one base station comprising:
- transmitting first data using a first modulation layer of a first carrier radio frequency (RF) signal; and
transmitting second data using a second modulation layer of the first carrier RF signal during transmission of the first data,wherein the first and second modulation layers are hierarchical modulation layers of the carrier RF signal, and the first data comprises different content than the second data.
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Abstract
The present invention employs hierarchical modulation to simultaneously transmit data over different modulation layers using a carrier RF signal. Each modulation layer may be of a higher or lower order than the other modulation layers. Certain embodiments of the present invention may transmit different information on the different modulation layers. Other embodiments of the present invention may use the different layers for processing different information streams.
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1. A method for transmitting information to user equipment from a first of at least one base station comprising:
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transmitting first data using a first modulation layer of a first carrier radio frequency (RF) signal; and transmitting second data using a second modulation layer of the first carrier RF signal during transmission of the first data, wherein the first and second modulation layers are hierarchical modulation layers of the carrier RF signal, and the first data comprises different content than the second data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
wherein the third and fourth modulation layers are hierarchical modulation layers of the second carrier RF signal, and the first and third data are associated with different content.
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26. The method of claim 25 wherein the first data is associated with content relating to a first geographic area and the second data is associated with content relating to a subset of the first geographic area.
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27. The method of claim 25 wherein the first of the at least one base station is associated with transmitting to user equipment in a first geographic area and the second of the at least one base station is associated with transmitting to UE in a second geographic area.
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28. The method of claim 27 wherein the first geographic area does not overlap with the second geographic area.
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29. The method of claim 1 wherein the first data comprises broadcast data having national content and the second data comprises broadcast data having local content.
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30. The method of claim 1 wherein the first data comprises broadcast data having regional content, and the second data comprises broadcast data having local content.
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31. The method of claim 1 wherein the first data comprises at least one program channel for a basic program service and the second data comprises at least one program channel for a supplemental program service.
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32. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one base station forms a single frequency network (SFN) by transmitting equivalent data on at least one equivalent modulation layer at the same time using a plurality of antennas.
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33. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first data and the second data is modulated onto at least one sub-carrier using one selected from a group consisting of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM).
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34. The method of claim 33 wherein the first data is processed differently than the second data.
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35. The method of claim 1 wherein the first of the at least one base station has a first antenna and a second antenna, wherein the first data is transmitted using the first and second antennas, and the second data is transmitted using only the first antenna.
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36. The method of claim 35 wherein the first data is processed differently than the second data.
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37. The method of claim 35 wherein the first data comprises content from at least one programming channel.
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38. The method claim 1 wherein at least one of the first data and second data comprises RF communications system control channel data.
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39. A radio frequency (RF) communications system comprising:
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at least one communication interface; and
;a control system associated with the at least one communication interface and adapted to; transmit first data using a first modulation layer of a first carrier RF signal; and transmit second data using a second modulation layer of the first carrier RF signal during transmission of the first data; and user equipment (UE) adapted to receive the single carrier RF signal, wherein the first and second modulation layers are hierarchical modulation layers of the single carrier RF signal, and the first and second data are associated with different content.
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