Patent ID: 7599281

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless communication system having electrical characteristics defined by a standard and comprising at least two transmission paths each adapted to transmit data at a rate of P Mega bits per second (Mbps) in conformity with the standard, the method comprising: employing a processor executing computer executable instructions embodied on a computer readable storage medium to perform the following acts: transmitting a first data stream from a first one of the at least two transmission paths at a rate of Q Mbps, wherein Q is smaller than P; transmitting a second data stream from a second one of the at least two transmission paths at the rate of Q Mbps; encoding each of the first and second data streams at a rate of 1 S ; defining a number U of unique tones to be transmitted from each of NT transmission paths; and sending each of the U unique tones N times from each of the NT transmission paths, wherein U is determined in accordance with the following: U = Q ⨯ T ⨯ S B ⨯ M wherein T represents the time period defined by the standard for transmitting each tone, B represents the number of bits per symbol, M represents the number of streams the data is divided into, and wherein N is determined in accordance with the following: wherein V is the number of tones specified by the standard to be transmitted associated with the encoding rate of 1/S, wherein encoding rate of 1/S is also defined by the standard.