Patent ID: 8824564

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, by a processor, a redundancy verification parameter for a decoded bit sequence that comprises video content; if the redundancy verification, parameter indicates that a redundancy verification has passed, accepting, by the processor, the decoded bit sequence; and if the redundancy verification parameter indicates that the redundancy verification has failed, then; initializing, by the processor, a hypothesis count and generating, by the processor, a hypothesis based on a maximum likelihood solution for the decoded bit sequence, wherein the hypothesis count indicates a number of hypotheses that pass a second redundancy verification; generating, by the processor, a second redundancy verification parameter for the hypothesis; if the second redundancy verification parameter indicates that the hypothesis has passed, then incrementing, by the processor, the hypothesis count, saving, by the processor, the hypothesis, and comparing, by the processor, the hypothesis count with a hypothesis limit; and if the hypothesis count is less than the hypothesis limit, then identifying, by the processor, a next hypothesis based on a next maximum likelihood solution.