Patent ID: 6336201
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: G06F,H03M,H04B,H04H,H04J,H04K,H04L,H04M,H04N,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
In a communications system for transmitting payload messages between a central head end and a plurality of remote units over a plurality of coherent carriers within messages each having a sequence of frames, a method for decreasing peak decoding load at said head end, comprising:formatting at least first and second ones of said messages as first and second sequences of frames in first and second ones of said remote units, wherein each of the first and second sequences of frames includes at least one check-symbol frame; transmitting said first message over a first of said carriers from said first remote unit to said head end beginning at a first time; transmitting said second message over a second of said carriers from said second remote unit to said head end beginning at a second time, wherein the first and second sequences of frames arrive at the head end such that the at least one check-symbol frame of the first sequence of frames is not aligned with the at least one check-symbol frame of the second sequence of frames; decoding said first message at a third time in a processor located in said head end; and decoding said second message at a fourth time in the same processor in said head end.