Patent ID: 7519101
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: H04B,H04J

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication device, comprising: communication circuitry using a combination of Pseudo-Noise (PN) coded and non-PN coded data transmission periods to represent binary data bits of a data packet; a first encoder stage that encodes groups of the binary data bits of the data packet into n-ary values wherein n is greater than two, each n-ary value representing one of a logic 0 value through a logic n−2 value and a logic Empty (E) value; and a second encoder stage to receive the n-ary values, and enabled to encode the logic 0 through logic n−2 values into respective PN coded data to be transmitted during the PN coded data transmission periods, and enabled to treat the logic E values as “don't care” data values communicated by the non-PN coded data transmission periods.