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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2005
Ahmad Jalali, San Diego, CA (US);
Jay R. Walton, Westford, MA (US);
Mark Wallace, Bedford, MA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
For certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus for transmitting in a multi-antenna communication system is provided. The method comprises modulating a plurality of signals to be transmitted from each antenna of a plurality of antennas with at least one subband of a different one of a plurality of groups of subbands, wherein each of the plurality of groups includes a different subset of the plurality of subbands and wherein the plurality of subbands of a first group are noncontiguous, and transmitting at least some the plurality of signals substantially simultaneously from different ones of the plurality of antennas.