Patent ID: 8498349

Claim:
A method for processing a signal in a receiver, the method comprising: quantizing a demodulated signal to generate bits in response to receipt of the demodulated signal; grouping the bits into one or more blocks; computing a syndrome for a block from the one or more blocks; identifying error, corresponding to the syndrome, in the block based on type of demodulation of the demodulated signal, the type of demodulation including a coherent demodulation and a differential demodulation, the identifying the error including: matching the syndrome with predefined syndromes; identifying a predefined error, corresponding to a matching syndrome, from predefined errors as the error; shifting bits of the syndrome by 1 bit to yield a shifted syndrome if the syndrome does not match the predefined syndromes; and matching the shifted syndrome with the predefined syndromes; and correcting the error in the block.