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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2001
Petteri Hakalin, Oulu, FI;
Petteri Hakalin, Oulu, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method for estimating quality of communications between a transmitter and a receiver over a communications link operable to carry data in at least one of a plurality of different compressed forms, the method comprising: detecting an error rate of the communications as received; receiving at a quality estimation unit an indication of the detected error rate and an indication of the at least one of the plurality of compressed forms in use over the link; and the quality estimation unit estimating the quality of the communications by means of both the indication of the detected error rate and the indication of the at least one of the plurality of compressed forms.