Patent ID: 9432187
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G09C,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for transmitting bits of data over a link, comprising: a scrambler configured to scramble data; circuitry configured to insert the scrambled data into data frames of data blocks, and to transmit the data blocks over the link; and an initialization module configured to generate an unscrambled pseudo-random sequence; the circuitry further configured to insert the unscrambled pseudo-random sequence into a data frame instead of the scrambled data at a predefined periodic interval, to initialize the scrambler to a starting point based on the insertion of the unscrambled pseudo-random sequence into the data frame, and to transmit the data frame in a data block over the link; and the initialization module further configured to generate the unscrambled pseudo-random sequence based on a seed value selected so that a first portion of the unscrambled pseudo-random sequence represents a header of the data block that indicates that the data frame includes a second portion of the unscrambled pseudo-random sequence.