Patent Document ID: 20030133523
Application ID: 10044888
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A wireless communication receiving apparatus, comprising: an antenna for receiving via first and second wireless communication channels a composite communication symbol that represents first and second communication symbols which are respectively associated with said first and second wireless communication channels and which correspond to respective results of first and second coding operations performed by a transmitter apparatus on a bit stream and an interleaved version of the bit stream, respectively; a probability generator coupled to said antenna and responsive to said composite communication symbol for generating, for each of said first and second communication symbols, a corresponding plurality of probabilities that the communication symbol has respective ones of a plurality of possible values of the communication symbol; first and second SISO decoders respectively corresponding to said first and second coding operations and coupled to said probability generator for respectively receiving therefrom the pluralities of probabilities corresponding to said first and second communication symbols, each of said SISO decoders operable for performing a decoding operation on the associated plurality of probabilities; and a sequencer apparatus coupled to said first and second SISO decoders, said sequencer apparatus having an input for receiving information about one of said wireless communication channels, said sequencer apparatus responsive to said wireless communication channel information for controlling said SISO decoders such that one of said SISO decoders performs its associated decoding operation before the other of said SISO decoders performs its associated decoding operation.