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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:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
David E Borth, Palatine, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375 96 ; 371 43 ; 375101 ;
Abstract
There is provided a mechanism for soft trellis decoding. It comprises: generating decisions that rely upon other decision making and associating with it information indicative of the confidence held in those decisions and generated from the relative merit of any given decision. It further comprises: generating Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation equalization decisions and multiplying a signed value of the generated decision by the absolute values of the difference between alternative criterion utilized to arrive at any given decision, whereby the relative merit comprises a measure of signal quality at the time that given decision is made.