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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gregory W Wornell, Wellesley, MA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 18 ; 455 331 ;
Abstract
Transmitting and receiving method and apparatus especially suited to multi-user communication systems such as cellular systems, in which multi-path transmission encounters time-variable fading characteristics in the channel. Pre-coding message stream of symbols by convolution with predetermined signature sequences for respective users enables separation of respective user messages and combats effects of variable fading.