Patent ID: 7916711

Claim:
A system for power conservation in a receiver device, comprising: a tuner configured to receive a transmitted signal of modulated information intended for the receiver device, wherein the modulated information includes symbols; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that samples the received transmitted signal provided by the tuner; and digital signal processing hardware (DSPHW) that: extracts soft bit information from the sampled signal provided by at least one analog-to-digital converter, determines if a symbol included in the sampled signal belongs to an erasure interval, wherein the erasure interval covers a set of symbols for which the soft bit information is replaced with information that is not provided by an analog-to-digital converter, generates a control signal to configure a receiver device component to conserve power based on the determination, and recovers the modulated information based on the extracted soft bit information in spite of an occurrence of an erasure interval.