Patent ID: 8489969

Claim:
A method for channel decoding a received channel encoded frame that has been generated from a frame that includes at least a first part with unknown information content and at least a second part with an information content for which at least one data hypothesis can be generated, the method implemented by a base station comprising the steps of: a) generating, by the base station, at least one data hypothesis for the second part of the frame; b) channel decoding, by the base station, the received channel encoded frame using the generated at least one data hypothesis to increase a probability of successful decoding; wherein the channel encoded frame is a handover command acknowledgment that was received by the base station on a Fast Associated Control Channel (FACCH); wherein the handover command acknowledgment has the first part which comprises an address field and a control field; and wherein the handover command acknowledgment has the second part which comprises a length indicator field and at least one fill bit octet, where the length indicator field per a standard has bits “10000000” and each of the at least one fill bit octet has per the standard either bits “00101011” or bits “11111111”.