Patent ID: 7272768

Claim:
A system for implementing Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations in a wireless receiver comprising: at least one processing device that is operable to receive analog signals corresponding to a data block, to sample the analog signals to produce samples, to equalize the samples to produce soft decision bits of the data block, and to initiate IR operations, the at least one processing device operable to perform a substantial portion of Physical (PHY) layer operations and the Media Access Control (MAC) layer operations of the system, to investigate whether IR operations are required for the soft decision bits of the data block, and to initiate IR operations based upon the investigation; an IR processing function that is operable to perform IR operations on the soft decision bits of the data block based upon a direction from the at least one processing device and in an attempt to correctly decode the data block; and IR memory operably coupled to the IR processing function, the IR memory including Type I IR memory adapted to store IR status information of the data block and Type II IR memory adapted to store the data block.