Patent ID: 8331386

Claim:
A method for processing a transport block in a receiver in a communication network, the method comprising: (a) recovering the transport block comprising a first-type protocol data unit (PDU) and a corresponding checksum; (b) performing, in parallel: (i) a first set of media access control (MAC) processing functions on the first-type PDU to generate a first set of MAC results; and (ii) a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) on the transport block to determine whether the transport block passes or fails, wherein: (A) if the CRC check determines that the transport block passes, then indicating that a second set of MAC processing functions is to be performed; and (B) if the CRC check determines that the transport block fails, then not indicating that the second set of MAC processing functions is to be performed, wherein: the receiver has a protocol stack comprising a physical layer and a data-link layer; the steps of (a) recovering the transport block and (b) performing (i) the first set of MAC processing functions and (ii) the CRC check are performed in the physical layer; and the second set of MAC processing functions is performed in one of the physical layer and the data-link layer.