Patent ID: 11942982
Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of communicating using spread spectrum, the method comprising:
intercepting, by a spread spectrum module carried by a drone, a legacy radio frequency (RF) signal wirelessly transmitted from a legacy transmitter at a first node, the legacy transmitter being configured to wirelessly transmit the legacy RF signal to other nodes in a network, where the legacy RF signal is not a spread spectrum signal, wherein the legacy transmitter and the spread spectrum module are implemented as separate devices remote from each other;
performing, by the spread spectrum module, spread spectrum processing on the legacy RF signal to generate a spread spectrum signal; and
wirelessly transmitting, by the spread spectrum module, the spread spectrum signal to a legacy receiver at a second node of the other nodes in the network to recover the legacy RF signal after the spread spectrum signal is de-spread by a de-spread spectrum module coupled to the legacy receiver.