Patent ID: 7412017
Filing Date: 2008-08-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for ensuring the signal integrity of data transmitted over a digital transmission link and received at a receiver unit, comprising: representing an encoded symbol stream by a plurality of sample streams; detecting a symbol from each of the plurality of sample streams; delaying each of the detected symbols from the plurality of sample streams with a variable delay buffer; determining which one of the detected symbols detected from each of the plurality of sample streams is a current most reliable symbol; selecting the current most reliable symbol; determining if the selected current most reliable symbol will result in skipping or repeating an associated symbol from the encoded symbol stream, and if so, adjusting a delay length of the variable delay buffer such that the associated symbol from the encoded symbol stream will not be skipped or repeated, and if not, not adjusting the delay length of the variable delay buffer; and receiving the selected symbol at the receiver unit.