Patent ID: 6052812
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: H03M,H04L

Abstract:
A method of communicating messages between a messaging server and a remote device comprising:establishing a connection between the remote device and the messaging server by the remote device transmitting a preamble frame;exchanging a data frame between the remote device and the messaging server;detecting an error in the data frame;correcting the error in the data frame, if the error is correctable;re-transmitting the data frame, if the error is uncorrectable;wherein correcting the error in the data frame comprises:comparing a packet type code to a fixed set of packet type codes, wherein the packet type code is replaced by a member of the fixed set of packet type codes that has the smallest Hamming distance, if a Hamming distance is less than or equal to a fixed value; andindicating that the data frame has uncorrectable errors, if the Hamming distance is greater than the fixed value.