Patent ID: 8275019

Claim:
A method for transmitting a first chip-block and a second chip-block over a single-carrier communication channel with a transmitter that is coupled to a first antenna and a second antenna, the method comprising: encoding data in a first block of symbols and encoding the data in a second block of symbols; generating the first chip-block and the second chip-block, the generated first chip-block and the generated second chip-block separately including the first block of symbols and the second block of symbols that have been spread based, at least in part, on a first orthogonal spreading code and a second orthogonal spreading code and then combined by superimposing and/or interleaving the spread block of symbols from the first block of symbols with the spread block of symbols from the second block of symbols; and transmitting over the single-carrier communication channel the first chip-block with the transmitter via the first antenna and transmitting the second chip-block with the transmitter via the second antenna.