Patent ID: 8488710

Claim:
A method of providing redundancy for error recovery in multi-carrier wireless communications, the method comprising: transmitting a primary version of information via a first carrier; transmitting a first portion of a redundancy version of the information via a second carrier; and transmitting a second portion of the redundancy version of the information via a third carrier; wherein the primary version is encoded using a first encoding scheme and the redundancy version is encoded using a second encoding scheme and wherein the primary version, the first portion, and the second portion are transmitted substantially simultaneously; wherein decoding the primary version, the first portion and the second portion are configured to be decoded upon reception, wherein the first portion is configured to be combined with the primary version, with the second portion, or with the primary version and the second portion based on a combination scheme; wherein the combination scheme comprises selective soft combining and wherein the primary version, the first portion, or the second portion is further configured to be discarded without being combined.