Patent ID: 8781035

Claim:
A method for wireless communications, comprising: generating a first plurality of values based on a received data packet; combining the first plurality of values with a second plurality of values to generate a plurality of combined values, wherein the plurality of combined values are stored in a first buffer and the second plurality of values are stored in a second buffer; determining reliability of the plurality of combined values and the second plurality of values based on a reliability metric, wherein determining reliability of the plurality of combined values and the second plurality of values based on the reliability metric comprises: determining a first reliability value corresponding to the plurality of combined values and a second reliability value corresponding to the second plurality of values based on the reliability metric; overwriting the second buffer with the plurality of combined values if the plurality of combined values are more reliable than the second plurality of values; and decoding values stored in the second buffer to determine a plurality of decoded bits corresponding to the received data packet.