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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory A. Feeney, Palatine, IL (US);
Gerald Jones, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 2/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 2/302 ;
Abstract
A method of determining a quality metric for a message. The method comprises receiving ( ) a message, constructing ( ) a trellis array associated with the message, and determining ( ) a quality metric for the message based on the trellis array. In one embodiment, the quality metric is derived from state information obtained from selected columns in the trellis array. The state information may include target states defining correct and/or incorrect transitions in the selected columns. The quality metric comprises in one embodiment a cumulative number of the occurrences of the target states in the selected columns.