Patent ID: 8826093

Claim:
A method of wireless communications, comprising: using an antenna of an apparatus for receiving data packets, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) segments and parity packets in a superframe, wherein a parity packet is associated with one or more data packets; buffering the parity packets in a buffer of the apparatus; when the parity packets are received after the data packets: detecting, at the apparatus, whether the data packets are incorrect using the CRC segments; after the detecting, reducing power consumption by omitting to decode and deleting the parity packets from the buffer of the apparatus if all data packets are valid; and decoding parity packets for error correction only if a data packet is determined to be incorrect; and when the parity packets are received prior to the data packets: decoding the parity packets; and decoding the data packets without employing a CRC protocol if none of the of the data packets are corrupt.