Patent ID: 8219875

Claim:
A method to transmit a bit stream, the method comprising: separating a bit stream into separate high priority bits and low priority bits; rearranging the bits from the high priority bits and the low priority bits to form a rearranged bit stream, the rearranged bit stream including blocks of bits, at least one block in the blocks of bits including one or more high priority bits disposed left of one or more low priority bits; and transmitting the rearranged bit stream; wherein the bits from the high priority bits and the low priority bits can be rearranged to form a plurality of different rearranged bit streams having different blocks of bits in which at least one block in each rearranged bit stream includes one or more high priority bits disposed left of one or more low priority bits, the different rearranged bit streams providing different levels of error protection, and wherein one of the plurality of rearranged bit streams is formed and transmitted.