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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:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nandakumar Ramanujam, Morganville, NJ (US);
Bo Pedersen, Rumson, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Tyco Telecommunications(US)Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/300 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus to perform error correction is described. A stream of data is encoded using concatenated error correcting codes. The encoded data is communicated over a long-haul transmission system. The encoded data is decoded using the codes and three levels of decoding.