Patent ID: 9503218
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H03M,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for processing information over a network, comprising: receiving a first set of signals representing a first logic value from a transmitter via a physical communication channel; demodulating the first set of signals in accordance with a soft decoding scheme and generating a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) value representing the first logic value; generating a quantized LLR value in response to the LLR value via a non-linear LLR quantizer; storing the quantized LLR value representing compressed first logic value in a local storage; and retrieving the quantized LLR value from the local storage and decompressing the quantized LLR value to restore the LLR value when a decoder is ready to decode the LLR value, wherein generating a quantized LLR value further includes extracting a sign bit from content bits of the LLR value, generating a log result of content by taking a logarithm in base 2 (log 2) of the content bits of the LLR value, and concatenating the log result with the sign bit to produce a log 2 quantized LLR value representing the first logic value.