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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999

Filed:

Mar. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

W Stuart Venters, Huntsville, AL (US);

Kevin W Schneider, Huntsville, AL (US);

Assignee:

Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 53 ; 371 3701 ; 371 377 ;
Abstract

In order to transport digital data across a reliable digital communication link from a transmit site to a destination site, the data is processed in parallel paths to derive error detection information, such as a cyclic redundancy code, and to encode the data. The outputs of the parallel paths are combined into a composite digital data sequence, which is then transmitted over the reliable digital communication link to the destination site. At the destination site, the encoded digital data component of the composite data sequence is decoded and then subjected to the same error detection operation carried out at the transmit site to derive error detection information associated with the decoded digital data. This recalculated error detection information is compared with the error detection information component contained in the composite digital data sequence. If there is a mismatch, the reliable digital communication link and the encoder at the transmit site and the decoder at the destination site are reset.


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