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Method for correcting errors from a jamming signal in a frequency hopped spread spectrum communication system

US5793795A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 4, 1996
Grant dateAug 11, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 4, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/10
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A selective call communication system (10) has a selective call device (100) for transmitting a frequency hopped spread spectrum signal (320) encoded as Reed Solomon code words and modulated as a four-level frequency shift keying (4FSK) signal. A base site transceiver (156) receives the signal on a plurality of narrow band channels. A digital signal processor (DSP)(152) performs a fast fourier transform on the signal to generate frequency samples. The DSP (152) has a comparator (342) that compares an 4FSK symbol to a predetermined threshold, a determinator (344), in response to the comparator (342), determines when there is an interference signal jamming the narrow band channel, an erasure marker (346) marks a position in the Reed Solomon symbol determined to be jammed as an erasure and an error correcting code (348) corrects errors in the Reed Solomon code words marked with erasures.

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