Patent ID: 8724749

Claim:
A method for receiving data signals transmitted by multiple transmitters, each data signal having a data stream that is independent of the data stream of the other data signals, comprising: receiving a first data signal at a first antenna and a second data signal at a second antenna; filtering the first and second received data signals; suppressing signal interference in each of the filtered first and second data signals, wherein the suppressing step comprises: making a preliminary decision on the value of the data stream of each of the filtered first and second data signals; combining the preliminary decisions; calculating an estimate for each of the filtered first and second data signals; calculating the reliability of each estimate; and making a soft decision as to the value of the data streams of each of the filtered first and second data signals; decoding each signal interference suppressed signal; and assembling the decoded signals into a first decoded data stream and a second decoded data stream, which is parallel to the first decoded data stream.