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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Smith A Rhodes, Chantilly, VA (US);
Assignee:
Communications Satellite Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 43 ;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for convolutionally encoding a finite length digital data bit stream, the information samples arriving at the output of each encoder shift register are fed back to its input to simulate an infinite periodic data bit stream. Recirculation of the received information and parity symbols is also used for decoding.