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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1999
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
John Anderson Fergus Ross, Del Mar, CA (US);
Naofal Mohammed Wassel Al-Dhahir, Chatham, NJ (US);
Mark Lewis Grabb, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Michael James Hartman, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Richard Louis Frey, Delanson, NY (US);
John Anthony Esposito, W. Windsor, NJ (US);
Roy Marion LaRosa, Madison, NJ (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A spread spectrum communications system that is operable to provide user-selectable data transfer rates comprises a user station for generating an access request and a gateway server for receiving the access request. The gateway server includes a rate unit for comparing a requested rate to assigned rates, a selector for selecting an available user channel and an available signaling alphabet, and an allocation unit for assigning the carrier, user channel, and alphabet to the access request. One of several offered transfer rates is assigned to the available user channel. Each offered rate corresponds to a set of signaling alphabets with low cross-correlation for data transfer.