Patent ID: 8488662
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of implementing de-rate matching of soft decisions, the method being performed by a mobile station in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving the soft decisions in a sequence; determining a stream tag for each soft decision in the sequence; determining a de-rate matching command for each soft decision in the sequence; and sequentially processing each soft decision in the sequence using the stream tag and the de-rate matching command for the soft decision, the sequence including soft decisions that are associated with different stream tags; determining, for each of N types of data streams, N being an integer, a padding command, the padding command being indicative of whether the type of data stream requires padding; and if one or more of the N types of data streams requires padding, inserting one or more soft decisions of value zero after the soft decisions in the sequence have been sequentially processed; wherein each soft decision in the sequence is part of one type of the N types of data streams, and wherein the stream tag can have one of N values and the stream tag identifies, for each soft decision in the sequence, which type of the N types of data streams the soft decision is part of.