Patent ID: 8402324

Claim:
A communications transmitter adapted to convert an input data stream into an encoded data stream for transmission, the communications transmitter comprising: a local/global interleaver (e.g., 106 ) adapted to perform both local and global interleaving on the input data stream to generate an interleaved input data stream; an error-correction encoder (e.g., 108 ) adapted to encode the interleaved input data stream to generate a stream of interleaved parity values corresponding to an error-correction-encoded codeword; a local/global de-interleaver (e.g., 110 ) adapted to perform both local and global de-interleaving on the stream of interleaved parity values to generate a stream of de-interleaved parity values; and a multiplexer (e.g., 112 ) adapted to multiplex the input data stream and the de-interleaved parity values to generate the encoded data stream.