Patent ID: 7397826

Claim:
A transmission system for transmitting an information signal via a plurality of subchannels from a transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter comprising a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the information signal into a plurality of information subsignals, a channel encoder for encoding the information subsignals into encoded information subsignals, wherein each encoded information subsignal is transmitted via one of the subchannels to the receiver, and the receiver comprising a channel decoder for successively decoding the received encoded information subsignals, wherein the demultiplexer demultiplexes the information signal into a plurality of partly overlapping information subsignals comprising shared and non-shared information elements, wherein for each subsignal a distribution of the shared information elements is based on a capacity of the subchannels as ordered by the receiver, and wherein the channel decoder decodes a received encoded information subsignal by incorporating shared information elements of already decoded information subsignals.