Method and system for a synchronized pseudo-random privacy modem

• US 4,924,516 A
• Filed: 05/23/1989
• Issued: 05/08/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rembrandt Communications LP (Rembrandt IP Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Paradyne (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bremer, Gordon, Betts, William L.
• Primary Examiner(s): CANGIALOSI, SALVATORE A
• Application Number:
  US07/356,080
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 380/9, 380/48, 380/46
• US Class Current: 380/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 1/00 Secret communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/3472 by switching between alternative constellations

Abstract

A method and system for a synchronized pseudorandom privacy modem makes use of a pseudorandom signal generator to index into a table of N signal spaces thereby altering gain and phase modifiers so or to modify both the gain and phase of portions of the data signal being transmitted from a QAM modem and thus transmit an encrypted signal pattern to the other end of the communications channel. The modem transmitter circuit includes a data scrambler, and QAM signal point mapper, connected in series, as well as a pair of mixers having inputs from the pseudorandom signal generator and functioning to modify the gain and phase of portions of the QAM signal point mapper output signal before they are pulse amplitude modulated, filtered, converted to analog form, and transmitted over the communications channel. Complementary circuit elements in the receiver, which have been synchronized with those of the transmitter by baud rate counters at both locations, demodulate and decode the received encrypted signal.

Claims

1. A method for a synchronized pseudorandom privacy modem comprising the steps of:

storing a table with parameters corresponding to N signal spaces;

generating a string of pseudorandom numbers;

indexing into said table with said string of pseudorandom numbers thereby generating a string of parameters corresponding to said N signal spaces;

quadrature amplitude modulating a digital signal;

altering the quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal responsive to said string of parameters corresponding to said N signal spaces;

converting the altered quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal to an analog signal; and

transmitting the analog signal over a communication channel.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said altering step includes altering a gain of the quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said altering step includes altering a phase of the quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said altering step includes altering a gain and a phase of the quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal.

5. A system for providing secure data transmission over a communication channel comprising:

means for storing a table of parameters corresponding to N signal spaces;

means for generating a string of pseudorandom numbers;

means for indexing into said table with said string of pseudorandom numbers thereby generating a string of parameters corresponding to said N signal;

means for quadrature amplitude modulating a digital signal;

means for altering the quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal responsive to said string of parameters corresponding to said N signal spaces;

means for converting the altered quadrature amplitude modulated digital signal to an analog signal; and

means for transmitting the analog signal over a communications channel.

6. The system of claim 5 further comprising a data scrambler having at least one input to said quadrature amplitude modulating means.

7. The system of claim 5 further comprising a phase selector module connected to an output of said pseudorandom generating, means and a first mixer connected to an output of said phase selector module and to an output of said quadrature amplitude modulating means.

8. The system of claim 6 further comprising a gain selector in said phase selector module which has an input from said pseudorandom generating, means and further comprising a second mixer connected to an output of said gain selector and to said output of said quadrature amplitude modulating means.

9. The system of claim 7 further comprising a pulse amplitude modulating and filtering module connected to outputs of said first mixer, and a digital to analog converter connected to an output of said pulse amplitude modulating and filtering module and to said communications channel.