Patent Document ID: 20060194544
Application ID: 10529829
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for separating a plurality of co-channel, interfering signals of interest received by antennas of an antenna array without any a priori knowledge of the signals, the method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a matrix in eigenspace based on samples of the signals received by each of the antennas of the antenna array, the matrix yielding an eigenstream for each signal of interest; (b) processing the eigenstreams for each signal of interest to determine a set of optimal eigenweights for each signal of interest; (c) converting the optimal eigenweights for each signal to beam forming weights for each of the signals of interest ; and (d) processing a copy of the received signals using the beam forming weights for each co-channel, interfering signal to extract each signal of interest from the received, interfering signals.