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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:
Aug. 27, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
David M Blaker, Emmaus, PA (US);
Gregory S Ellard, Forest Park, GB;
Mohammad S Mobin, Whitehall, PA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375341 ; 371 43 ;
Abstract
A digital signal processor with an embedded error correcting coprocessor (ECCP) is disclosed. The ECCP provides soft symbol Viterbi decoded outputs which have the absolute value of the accumulated cost difference of competing states concatenated with the traceback bit or most significant bit of the next state.