Out of channel cyclic redundancy code method for a discrete multitone spread spectrum communications system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6639935
APP PUB NO 20010040912A1
SERIAL NO

09902730

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A new method makes the most efficient use of the scarce spectral bandwidth in a wireless discrete multitone spread spectrum communications system. Each remote station and each base station in the network prepares an error detection field, such as a cyclic redundancy code (CRC), on each block of data to be transmitted over the traffic channels. The sending station prepares an error detection message for transmission over the link control channel of the network. The sending station prepares the error detection message by forming a link control channel vector that will be spread using the discrete multitone spread spectrum (DMT-SS) protocol to distribute the data message over a plurality of discrete tone frequencies, forming a spread signal for the link control channel. A link control channel is associated with communications session using the traffic channels. The instant of transmission of the error detection message is allowed to be different from the instant of transmission of the data message. This permits the error detection messages to be transmitted when capacity is available on the link control channel. The receiving station buffers the error detection messages it receives from the link control channel, so that they are accessible by their block numbers. When the receiving station receives a data message on the traffic channel, it performs a CRC calculation on the data block in the message to obtain a resulting new CRC value. The new CRC value is also buffered at the receiving station with the block number so that it is accessible by its block number. Then, when both the received error message and the new CRC value are both available at the receiving station, they are matched by their common block number. The received CRC value in the error detection message is compared with the new CRC computed from the received data block. If the comparison determines that there is a difference in the values, then an error signal is generated.

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CLEAR WIRELESS LLC6200 SPRINT PARKWAY OVERLAND PARK KS 66211
CLEARWIRE LEGACY LLC6200 SPRINT PARKWAY OVERLAND PARK KS 66211

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gibbons, David Redmond, WA 48 1619
Maxwell, Robert Lee Duvall, WA 8 785
Ryan, David James Seattle, WA 35 3357

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