Patent ID: 9031165
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for simultaneously receiving and beamforming multiple signals at a phased array system that includes multiple antenna elements, the method comprising: receiving a radio frequency (RF) waveform at each of the antenna elements, the RF waveform including the multiple signals; performing the following operations at each of the antenna elements: forming multiple channelized beams with respect to each of the signals by adding together channelized beam components obtained at different antenna elements such that channelized beam components that correspond to a same channel are added together; beamforming each of the signals by synthesizing at least two of the channelized beams per signal; generating multiple streams of bits by demodulating each of the beamformed signals, wherein demodulating each of the beamformed signals includes: obtaining multiple data streams by decoding each of the streams of bits.