Patent ID: 7804846

Claim:
A method for finding errors in the fragment headers of the fragments of service layer packets without depending on the erasure indicators of Medium Access Channel (MAC) layer packets, said method comprising: determining, using a computer processor, if a length of said fragment header is less than 127 and greater than 121; determining, using said computer processor, if said length of said fragment header is equal to 127, and if said fragment header is not a last fragment header in a service layer packet being formed; determining, using said computer processor, if a summation of said length of said fragment header for a value N is greater than 122 subtracted by N, wherein N is the number of fragments collected from a MAC layer packet including said fragment header; and determining, using said computer processor, if said fragment header is not the last fragment header in said service layer packet being formed, and if said length of said fragment header is less than a residual number of bytes in said MAC layer packet.