Patent ID: 8615704

Claim:
A wireless device for implementing Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations, comprising: system processing circuitry operable to perform Physical (PHY) layer operations, Media Access Control (MAC) layer operations and Radio Link Control (RLC) operations of the wireless device, the system processing circuitry including: an Incremental Redundancy (IR) control module for processing IR transactions related to a received RLC data block and for tracking an Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) receiving state and received block bit map; and a Layer 1 (L1) module for performing the PHY layer operations, the L1 module further for intercepting the IR transactions and diverting the IR transactions to the IR control module, the L1 module further for passing a correctly decoded RLC data block to the RLC layer operations via the MAC layer operations thereby automatically synchronizing the RLC layer operations; and an IR processing module coupled to the system processing circuitry that is operable to perform IR operations on the received RLC data block based upon a direction from the IR control module.