Patent ID: 8381084

Claim:
An apparatus for facilitating recovery of automatically transmitted data of an emergency message, said apparatus comprising: a decoder configured to decode the transmitted data of the emergency message, the emergency message including information associated with a vehicular emergency; a decoded data recovery checker configured to check whether the transmitted data, once decoded, is successfully decoded; a storage element configured to store at least one value corresponding to a coded data part of the transmitted data of the emergency message whose decoding is associated with a likely error event; and a bit changer configured to change part of the transmitted data of the emergency message once decoded associated with reliability levels less than a threshold, the change being in accordance with the at least one value stored in the storage element and that is retrieved by said bit changer, if said decoded data recovery checker determines the transmitted data to be unsuccessfully decoded and to return the transmitted data having the changed part to the decoded data recovery checker, the transmitted data of the emergency message with the changed part, once successfully decoded, permitting use of the information associated with the vehicular emergency while obviating necessity to request retransmission of the transmitted data of the emergency message.