Patent 7103093 was granted and assigned to Thales Group on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to a method of estimating a propagation channel, between a source transmitting data and a receiver, using at least one learning sequence which comprises symbols referred to as “pilot symbols” and which is known to the receiver, so as to decode a data signal (digital signal), the signals being sent in successive frames, each frame being partitioned into a specified number of time slots.