Patent ID: 7434147
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: H03M,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for a receiver operable in a communication system to receive an encoded data block, formed of an entire data block, communicated thereto, the encoded data block communicated to the receiver as a series of a selected number of bursts of data, when all of the selected number of the bursts of data are communicated to the receiver, all of the encoded data block is communicated to the receiver, said apparatus for selectably recovering a decoded data block through reception of less than all of the selected number of the bursts of data, said apparatus comprising: a detector adapted to receive the bursts of the data; a determiner coupled to said detector to receive the indicia associated with the data received by said detector, said determiner for determining characteristics of the data received by said detector prior to receiving all of the bursts of data associated with the encoded data block; and a decoded data recoverer coupled to receive representations of the data detected by said detector and to said determiner to receive determinations made thereat, said decoded data recoverer selectably for recovering the decoded data from the data detected by said detector responsive to determinations made by said determiner, the data recovered by said decoded data recoverer representative of the entire data block such that reception of the remaining bursts of data associated with the encoded data block may be skipped.