Patent ID: 8085718

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an interleaved radio block from a communication channel, the radio block comprising a plurality of sub-blocks wherein each sub-block has first data and second data; evaluating the first data of the interleaved radio sub-block to obtain a first evaluation result, wherein the act of evaluating the first data comprises determining a first sum of the first data; evaluating the second data of the interleaved radio sub-block to obtain a second evaluation result, wherein the act of evaluating the second data comprises determining a second sum of the second data and wherein the first data is evaluated independent of the second data; and determining whether the interleaved radio block is a partial block based on the independent evaluations of the first and second data wherein the partial block includes half valid data, wherein the act of determining whether the radio block is a partial block comprises determining an average of the first and second sums and comparing the first and second sums to the average.