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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:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mohammad Shafiul Mobin, Whitehall, PA (US);
Sivanand Simanapalli, Allentown, PA (US);
Larry R Tate, South Barrington, PA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375341 ; 714795 ; 714796 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed, a method and apparatus for processing a signal in a pipeline. The method includes retrieving a present state cost. Simultaneously with receiving the present state cost, an estimated symbol and a received symbol are obtained, a difference between the received and estimated symbols is found, the difference between the received and esitmated symbols is squared, and the present state cost is added to the squared difference to generate a next state cost. The apparatus includes hardware to carry out the method.