Patent ID: 8000268

Claim:
A method performed by a wireless transmitter for frequency hopping within an interleaved frequency division multiple access (IFDMA) communication system, the method comprising steps of: receiving, by the wireless transmitter, a symbol stream; receiving, by the wireless transmitter, a first IFDMA modulation code; at a first time period, modulating, by the wireless transmitter, the symbol stream with the first IFDMA modulation code to produce a symbol stream that occurs at a first set of frequencies; receiving, by the wireless transmitter, a second IFDMA modulation code, wherein the second IFDMA modulation code is different from the first IFDMA modulation code; and at a second time period, frequency hopping the symbol stream by modulating, by the wireless transmitter, the symbol stream with the second IFDMA modulation code to produce a symbol stream that occurs at a second set of frequencies; wherein the set of frequencies at which the symbol stream occurs is dependent upon the IFDMA modulation code utilized to modulate the symbol stream and wherein the first and the second time periods comprise a first and a second symbol period.