Patent ID: 8064836
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A cognitive radio transceiver for dispersed wireless spectrum utilization, the transceiver comprising: a transmitter comprising a plurality of branches, each of the plurality of branches associated with one of each of a plurality of available dispersed bands in a dispersed wireless spectrum, each of the plurality of branches comprising; a transmitter combiner for combining each of the filtered, amplified, upconverted baseband signals from each of the plurality of branches into a combined signal; a transmitter for transmitting the combined signal over a single wideband antenna; a splitter for receiving the combined signal and for splitting the combined signal into a plurality of baseband receive signals, each of the plurality of baseband receive signals associated with one of each of the plurality of available dispersed bands; a receiver for receiving the plurality of baseband receive signals from the splitter, the receiver comprising a plurality of branches, each of the plurality of branches associated with one of each of the plurality of available dispersed bands in the dispersed wireless spectrum, each of the plurality of branches comprising; a receiver combiner for combining the downconverted, amplified, filtered receive signals from each of the plurality of branches to recover the transmitted baseband signal.