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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2006
Applicants:
Randy C Giles, Whippany, NJ (US);
Xiang Liu, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Randy C Giles, Whippany, NJ (US);
Xiang Liu, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03C 1/52 (2006.01); H03K 7/02 (2006.01); H04L 27/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are described for generating and receiving amplitude and differential-phase encoded signals in which the number of phase states at a given amplitude level is always less than or equal to that at a higher amplitude level and at least two amplitude levels have different numbers of phase states.