Patent ID: 7164732

Claim:
A system for implementing Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations in a wireless receiver comprising: a baseband processor that is operable to receive analog signals corresponding to a data block and to sample the analog signal to produce samples corresponding to the data block; an equalizer that is operable to receive the samples from the baseband processor, to equalize the samples, and to produce soft decision bits of the data block, the baseband processor and equalizer together operable to perform a substantial portion of Physical (PHY) layer operations of the system; a system processor that is operable to execute a substantial portion of Media Access Control (MAC) layer operations of the system, to receive the soft decision bits of the data block from the equalizer to, prior to executing all MAC layer operations on the soft decision bits, investigate whether IR operations are required for the soft decision bits of the data block and to initiate IR operations based noon the investigation; and an IR processing module operably coupled to the system processor that is operable to receive the soft decision bits of the data block to receive a direction from the system processor to perform IR operations on the soft decision bits of the data block, and to perform IR operations on the soft decision bits of the data block.