Patent ID: 8862958

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication transmitter, the method comprising: generating, at the transmitter, a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for a transport block; attaching, at the transmitter, the first CRC to the transport block; segmenting, at the transmitter, the transport block and the attached first CRC into a plurality of code block segments corresponding to a number C of code blocks of size Z−L, each code block segment containing a number of bits based on a size of a respective code block i within the C code blocks, wherein i=0, 1, . . . , C−1, Z is a maximum code block size, and L is a number of parity bits, and wherein one of the code block segments includes the first CRC; generating, at the transmitter, a plurality of second CRCs each of size L, wherein each second CRC is generated for each of the code block segments; attaching, at the transmitter, one of the second CRCs to one of the code block segments to form a code block, wherein the second CRC attached to one of the code block segments is the second CRC generated based on the corresponding code block segment; and channel encoding, at the transmitter, each of the code blocks including the attached second CRC.