Patent ID: 8027407

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: one or more terminals; and at least two base stations wirelessly communicating information-bearing signals to the one or more terminals using space-time block codes, including at least one of the information bearing signals being transmitted by two or more of the at least two base stations, wherein at least one of the space-time block codes is created from an induced code that is created via systematic transformations of a baseline code for joint application by the two or more base stations, wherein wirelessly communicating the at least one information-bearing signal by the two or more base stations includes, each of the two or more base stations, dividing, into blocks, a group of information signal vectors that are to be transmitted by the two or more base stations, and processing the blocks separately by, in part, applying a transform to each block separately prior to recombining the processed blocks into an information signal vector that is projected by its associated base station, the transform applied to each block by each of the two or more base stations being specified by the induced code.