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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2000
Yimin Jiang, Rockville, MD (US);
Robert Richmond, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Farhad Verahrami, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
An approach for identifying a particular carrier among a plurality of carriers in a satellite communication system is disclosed. A transmitter multiplies an encoded signal by a prescribed periodic sequence to form a watermarked signal and transmits the watermarked signal associated with a particular carrier over a communication channel. A receiver tunes to one of the carriers and extracts a data sequence from the one carrier. The receiver multiplies the data sequence with the prescribed periodic sequence to form another watermarked signal and determines whether the watermarked signals match.