Patent ID: 8804605

Claim:
A system for transmitting signals to a receiver, comprising: a demodulator for receiving and demodulating a feeder link signal, wherein the feeder link signal comprises a layered modulation feeder link signal including an upper layer feeder link signal and a lower layer feeder link signal, the demodulator comprising a layered modulation demodulator; a module, for generating an upper layer signal of a layered modulation downlink signal and a lower layer signal of the layered modulation downlink signal from the received feeder link signal; a first modulator, for modulating the upper layer feeder link signal to produce a modulated upper layer signal of the layered modulation downlink signal for transmission to the receiver; and a second modulator, for modulating the lower layer feeder link signal to produce a modulated lower layer signal of the layered modulation downlink signal for transmission to the receiver; wherein the upper layer feeder link signal and the lower layer feeder link signal are transmitted from a common location or each transmitted from a different location.