Roy M Larosa

US Patent:

6542536, Apr 1, 2003

Filed:

Nov 16, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/441013

Inventors:

John Erik Hershey - Ballston Lake NY
John Anderson Fergus Ross - Del Mar CA
Naofal Mohammed Wassel Al-Dhahir - Chatham NJ
Mark Lewis Grabb - Ballston Spa NY
Michael James Hartman - Clifton Park NY
Richard Louis Frey - Delanson NY
John Anthony Esposito - W. Windsor NJ
Roy Marion LaRosa - Madison NJ

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

International Classification:

H04B 169

US Classification:

375130

Abstract:

A spread spectrum communications system that is operable to provide user-selectable data transfer rates comprises a user station for generating an access request and a gateway server for receiving the access request. The gateway server includes a rate unit for comparing a requested rate to assigned rates, a selector for selecting an available user channel and an available signaling alphabet, and an allocation unit for assigning the carrier, user channel, and alphabet to the access request. One of several offered transfer rates is assigned to the available user channel. Each offered rate corresponds to a set of signaling alphabets with low cross-correlation for data transfer.