Patent ID: 7209714

Claim:
Apparatus for a sending station that communicates data upon a channel susceptible to distortion, said apparatus for facilitating successful communication of the data in a form to facilitate recreation of the informational content thereof, said apparatus comprising: a first constituent encoder adapted to receive values representative of the data to be communicated by the sending station, said first encoder for encoding the values received thereat to form first encoded representations of the data; at least a first interleaver adapted to receive the values representative of the data to be communicated by the sending station, said first interleaver for interleaving the values received thereat to form at least first interleaved values; at least a second constituent encoder adapted to receive the at least the first interleaved values formed by said at least the first interleaver, said second constituent encoder for encoding the at least the first interleaved values to form second encoded representations of the data, the second encoded representations decorrelated from the first encoded representations responsive to interleaving performed by said first interleaver; a multiplexer adapted to concurrently receive at least two representations of the data, the two representations of data comprising at least one of the first encoded representations of the data and at least one of the second encoded representations of the data, the at least two representations of the data being selectably multiplexed together, respectively, selection made dynamically responsive to distortion communication conditions on the channel susceptible to distortion; and at least a first antenna transducer adapted to receive the selectably multiplexed representations of the data.