Patent ID: 7813418

Claim:
In multicarrier communications having a plurality of subchannels, a system having a plurality of Framer/Coder/Interleaver blocks configurable to correspondingly support at least two applications, the system comprising: means for associating each application in a first set of currently active applications with a different Framer/Coder/Interleaver block for processing bits associated with that application; means for allocating at least one subchannel to a first application in the first set of currently active applications for carrying bits processed by the Frame/Coder/Interleaver block associated with that application; and means for allocating the at least one subchannel, in response to a change from the first set of currently active applications to a second set of currently active applications, to a second different application in the second set of currently active applications, for carrying bits processed by the Framer/Coder/Interleaver block associated with that application.