Patent ID: 8848568

Claim:
A method performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising: determining whether a first measure of a first quality parameter of a communication link is better than a first quality standard in response to a start of a transmission interval for a current packet; in response to determining that the first measure of the first quality parameter is better than the first quality standard: obtaining a second measure of a second quality parameter of the communication link, wherein the second quality parameter is different than the first quality parameter; determining whether the second measure of the second quality parameter of the communication link is better than a second quality standard; performing a partial packet decoding process on the current packet until the end of the current packet in response to determining that the second measure of the second quality parameter is better than the second quality standard; where the partial packet decoding process is not performed on the current packet if the wireless communication device determines that the second measure of the second quality parameter is not better than the second quality standard.