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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mitchell D. Trott, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tibor Boros, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Richard Uhlik, Danville, CA (US);
Assignee:
ArrayComm, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/303 ; H03M 1/300 ; H04L 1/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/303 ; H03M 1/300 ; H04L 1/18 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided that provide bandwidth efficient variable bit rate communication of digital signals in a noisy channel. According to one aspect of the present invention, the invention includes receiving a puncturing request, puncturing a data packet in accordance with the puncturing request, creating a puncturing code indicating the puncturing that has been applied to the data packet and transmitting the punctured data packet and the puncturing code.