Patent ID: 7584398

Claim:
Wireless device processing circuitry operable to implement Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations of a wireless device, the wireless device processing circuitry comprising: system processing circuitry operable to receive an input signal corresponding to a data block, to process the input signal to produce soft decision bits of the data block, and to initiate IR operations, the system processing circuitry operable to perform a substantial portion of Physical (PHY) layer operations and Media Access Control (MAC) layer operations of the wireless device, to investigate whether IR operations are required for the soft decision bits of the data block, and to initiate IR operations based upon the investigation; at least one IR processing module that is operable to perform IR operations on the soft decision bits of the data block based upon a direction from the system processing circuitry; and IR memory coupled to the IR processing function and to the system processing resources, the IR memory including Type I IR memory adapted to store IR status information of the data block and Type II IR memory adapted to store the data block.