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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:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gustave Solomon, late of Los Angeles, CA (US);
Andrew L. Strodtbeck, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Jennifer L. Vollbrecht, Torrance, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/300 ;
Abstract
A soft decision decodable short binary block coding arrangement is provided for use as an inner code with a Reed-Solomon outer code in a concatenated coding scheme. The inner code is a (n,k) short block code having a message length k×i, where i is a small integer selected to eliminate any need for interleaving between the inner and outer codes. Eliminating interleaving mitigates inner code decoder burst errors. The inner code is preferably formed as a punctured (15,11) Hamming code modified to form a (12,8) code sequence.