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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2005
Kumar Ramaswamy, Princeton, NJ (US);
Kumar Ramaswamy, Princeton, NJ (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Data for one, or more, services is encoded using a scalable channel code and divided for transmission over N transmitters such that reception by a receiver of at least M of the transmitted signals, where M<N, enables recovery of the data by the receiver. In other words, even if reception for any one particular transmitted signal in a defined geographical region is not guaranteed, reception of at least M of the other transmitted signals enables reception of the service(s). Thus, one, or more, services can be offered across an entire geographical area notwithstanding the existence of areas of poor, or no, reception.