Patent ID: 8331498

Claim:
A method of blind modulation detection for demodulating and decoding a plurality of data bursts, each data burst in the plurality modulated with the same modulation technique selected from a set of known modulation techniques, by a receiver in a wireless communication network, comprising: for each data burst in the plurality, saving each data burst to memory; independently formulating a preliminary decision as to which modulation technique was applied to each data burst; and demodulating each data burst using the preliminary modulation decision; formulating a global decision as to modulation technique based on an analysis of all data bursts in the plurality; for each data burst for which the preliminary decision differs from the global decision, retrieving the original data burst that was erroneously decoded, from memory; and demodulating the retrieved data burst using the global modulation decision; assembling the demodulated data bursts; and decoding the assembled data bursts.