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Chirp communications

  • US 8,718,117 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2012
  • Issued: 05/06/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A transmitter configured to communicate a data chirp signal to a receiver, the data chirp signal comprising at least one symbol, each of the symbols comprising one or more identical chirps, each of the symbols having a different chirp gradient than at least one other symbol in the data chirp signal, each of the chirps encoding a symbol value, the transmitter comprising:

  • an address encoding module configured to encode an address associated with the communication via the sequence of gradients of the symbols in the data chirp signal;

    a data encoding module configured to encode traffic data in the data chirp signal via the symbol value of each chirp; and

    a transmitting module configured to transmit the data chirp signal to the receiver,wherein at least a portion of the address and at least a portion of the traffic data are encoded on the same chirp.

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