Patent ID: 8547988

Claim:
A method of transmitting and receiving at least one frame of data ([D]) over a wireless communications link; said frame of data comprising a matrix of up to N 2 data elements, N being greater than 1; said method comprising: convoluting the data elements of said frame of data ([D]) so that the value of each data element, when transmitted, will be spread over a plurality of wireless waveforms, each individual waveform in said plurality of wireless waveforms having a characteristic frequency, and each individual waveform in said plurality of wireless waveforms carrying the convoluted results from a plurality of said data elements from the data frame; transmitting said convoluted results by cyclically shifting the frequency of this plurality of wireless waveforms over a plurality of time intervals so that the value of each data element is transmitted as a plurality of cyclically frequency shifted wireless waveforms sent over a plurality of time intervals; receiving and deconvoluting said plurality of cyclically frequency shifted wireless waveforms sent over a plurality of times, thereby reconstructing a replica of said at least one frame of data ([D]); wherein said convolution and deconvolution are such that an arbitrary data element of an arbitrary frame of data ([D]) cannot be guaranteed to be reconstructed with full accuracy until substantially all of said plurality of cyclically frequency shifted wireless waveforms have been transmitted and received.