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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1974
David L Lyon, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jerry L Holsinger, Burlington, MA (US);
David E Williams, Andover, MA (US);
Intertel, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A modem with transmitter and reciever sections. Incoming digital data signals produce successive coordinate signals to define successive transmission points representing a given digital value and to modulate quadrature carrier signals. The coordinate signals have unit values of 0, 1, 2.707, 3 and 5 and together control the amplitude and phase of the modulated carrier signals. The receiver section uses received coordinate signals, after they are properly conditioned, to select a decision region which corresponds to a transmission point to produce the digital data signals. The decision regions have rectilinear boundaries on a Cartesian coordinate system at unit values 0, 1.25, 2 and 4 and each region is either rectangular or non-rectangular. Digital synchronism between separate modems is maintained by transmitting coordinate signals corresponding to a framing point which is separate from the transmission points, but which has the same digital value as a transmission point. Certain decision regions defined by the receiver use the receipt of the modulated carrier signals corresponding to a framing point to initiate a synchronizing operation.