Patent ID: 7010054

Claim:
A method for transmitting encoded signals over a communication channel of a communication system having a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of receive antennas, the method comprising: receiving a message signal; and generating a code word in response to the message signal, the code word having a construction that is based upon a single dimensional binary code and that specifies a space-time overlay having a predetermined constraint, wherein the code word is a part of C that is a linear L t ×n space-time code, and L t represents the number of transmit antennas, the constraint being └c 1 (s) , c 2 (s) , . . . , c n−1 (s) , c n (s) ┘=└c 1 (i) , c 3 (1) , . . . , c n−1 (1) , c n (1) ┘, wherein c t (i) is a code symbol assigned to an i-th one of the transmit antennas at time t.