Patent ID: 7720027

Claim:
A method to process forward link only (FLO) wireless signals on a communications device, comprising: receiving a FLO signal; processing a Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) pilot comprising a TDM Pilot 1 , a TDM Pilot 2 , a Wide-area Identification Channel (WIC), a Local-area Identification Channel (LIC), a Transition Pilot Channel, and a Positioning Pilot, from the FLO signal; processing an overhead information symbol (OIS) comprising a wide-area OIS and a local-area OIS, from the FLO signal, wherein the wide-area OIS conveys information required to locate relevant data symbols in a wide-area data channel; processing a Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM) pilot comprising a wide-area FDM pilot and a local-area FDM pilot, from the FLO signal; and processing data comprising wide-area data and local-area data, from the FLO signal.