Patent ID: 6898753

Claim:
A receiver for receiving and processing data frames transmitted over a transmission channel, comprising: a) verification means for verifying the validity of data frames received, for detecting and identifying non-erroneous and erroneous data frames among the data frames received, said erroneous data frames being of a corrigible or incorrigible nature, b) correction means for correcting errors, which means act on corrigible erroneous received data frames so as to generate corrected data frames, characterized in that it comprises: c) comparison means for comparing received erroneous data frames with corresponding corrected data frames for estimating a minimum error rate involved in the transmission of the received data frames, d) analysis means for analyzing incorrigible erroneous received data frames for estimating a maximum error rate involved in the transmission of the received data frames, e) transmission means for transmitting information relating to said minimum and maximum error rates to a remote device.