Patent ID: 8539308
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: H03M,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) field included in a data block to indicate an acknowledgement (ACK) or a non-acknowledgement (NACK) for a particular temporary block flow (TBF), the TBF being a temporal connection between a mobile station and a network to support a uni-directional transfer of data, the method comprising: receiving a data block including coded bits of a PAN field and a PAN check sequence (PCS); decoding the coded bits of the PAN field and the PCS; evaluating a channel link quality based on a soft metric computed during the decoding of the coded bits of the PAN field and the PCS; and accepting the PAN field and the PCS based on evaluation of the channel link quality.