Mixed base data reduction technique

Claim 1

IN A MIXED BASE RECEIVER HAVING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL RECEIVING CHANNELS FOR RECEIVING AT LEAST ONE VARIABLE FREQUENCY SIGNAL, EACH CHANNEL HAVING A DIFFERENT MODULUS AND HAVING MEANS FOR PRODUCING AN ARRAY OF SIDEBAND FREQUENCIES RELATED TO THE INCOMING SIGNAL BY INCREMENTS CORRESPONDING TO THE MODULUS OF SAID CHANNEL, EACH CHANNEL HAVING A MODULO GAMUT OF ADJACENT BAND SLOT FILTERS, THE NUMBER OF FILTERS OF EACH MODULO GAMUT BEING EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE MODULUS OF ITS RESPECTIVE CHANNEL AND EACH FILTER HAVING A BANDWIDTH SUCH THAT ONLY ONE FILTER OF EACH SAID GAMUT MAY BE ACTIVE IN RESPONSE TO THE ARRAY OF SIDEBANDS AND THE INCOMING SIGNAL, AN IMPROVED DATA REDUCING SYSTEM FOR SAID RECEIVER COMPRISING: CHANGEABLE INTERCONNECTION MEANS IN EACH OF THOSE CHANNELS THE MODOLUS OF EACH OF WHICH IS LESS THAN THE LARGEST CHANNEL MODULUS, FOR RECEIVING AN INPUT FROM EACH FILTER OF THE MODULO FILTER GAMUT; EACH OF SAID INTERCONNECTION MEANS INCLUDING MEANS PROVIDING SEPARATE OUTPUTS EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE LARGEST CHANNEL MODULUS OF THE RECEIVER WHEREBY DIGITS RELATED TO THE MODULUS OF EACH SAID CHANNEL ARE SERIALLY REPEATABLE TO THE EXTENT OF THE LARGEST CHANNEL MODULUS AT SAID OUTPUTS; CONTROL MEANS CONNECTED TO EACH SAID INTERCONNECTION MEANS FOR EFFECTIVELY CHANGING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS THEREOF WHEREBY A FAMILY OF SERIAL DIGITS CORRESPONDING TO EACH RESPECTIVE CHANNEL MODULUS MAY BE ENABLED AT THE OUTPUTS OF EACH SAID INTERCONNECTING MEANS IN DIGIT GROUPS OF WHICH THE NUMBER OF DIGITS IN EACH GROUP IS EQUAL TO THE LARGEST CHANNEL MODULUS; A PLURALITY OF AND GATES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE LARGEST CHANNEL MODULUS; AND CONNECTOIN MEANS CONNECTING EACH AND GATE OF SAID PLURALITY OF AND GATES TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF THE OUTPUTS OF SAID INTERCONNECTION MEANS AND TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF THE FILTERS IN THE LARGEST MODULUS CHANNEL IN SERIAL ORDER OF RESPECTIVE CHANNEL MODULO DIGITS.