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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
May. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gregory Carleton, Varier, CA;
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Corporation, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
708252 ; 380 46 ; 375208 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining the state, at any time in the past, relative to a present state, of a linear feedback shift register comprises determining a an inverse transition matrix which, if multiplied by the current state in modulo-2 arithmetic, yields the state one step into the past; and multiplying in modulo-2 arithmetic the present state of the linear feedback shift register by the inverse transition matrix N times to obtain the state N steps into the past.