Patent ID: 8379716

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a predictive decoder configured to receive an inter-predictive encoded bit-stream representative of an original signal, decode the inter-predictive encoded bit-stream according to a predictive decoding technique, and output a reconstructed signal; and a secondary channel decoder configured to receive a secondary channel encoded bit-stream, the reconstructed signal, and information that includes the number of cosets used for encoding the secondary channel encoded bit-stream, wherein the secondary channel encoded bit-stream is representative of the original signal, wherein the number of cosets used for encoding the secondary channel encoded bit-stream is based on a correlation noise estimate for a video block calculated during encoding of the secondary channel encoded bit-stream based on data associated with the video block and a packet loss probability, and wherein the secondary channel decoder is further configured to decode the secondary channel encoded bit-stream, based on the number of cosets used for encoding the secondary channel encoded bit-stream, according to a secondary channel decoding technique, and combine the decoded secondary channel encoded bit-stream and the reconstructed signal to generate and output a final reconstruction of the original signal.