Patent ID: 8327239

Claim:
A communication device configured to perform packet reception processing, comprising: processing control means configured to receive a packet comprising a header and a payload, the header comprising a header check sequence and a first Reed-Solomon code; header check sequence inspecting means configured to determine, based on the header check sequence, that the received packet header does not include an error; Reed-Solomon encoding means configured to encode, in response to the determination, at least a portion of the received packet header to generate a second Reed-Solomon code, the received packet header portion being different from the first Reed-Solomon code; and Reed-Solomon code inspecting means is configured to determine whether a portion of the second Reed-Solomon code matches a corresponding portion of the first Reed-Solomon code, wherein the processing control means is further configured to process the received packet to obtain at least a portion of the payload, when the first Reed-Solomon code portion matches the second Reed-Solomon code portion.