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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2009
Joshua Lawrence Koslov, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Irv Negrin, Ringwood, NJ (US);
Jingyuan Liu, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Niranjan N. Ratnakar, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Joshua Lawrence Koslov, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Irv Negrin, Ringwood, NJ (US);
Jingyuan Liu, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Niranjan N. Ratnakar, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for synchronizing tile processing and assignment processing in a communication device. In particular, the methods and apparatus utilize a tile processing scorecard with a number of assertable bits corresponding to a number of tiles to be tile processed. As each tile is tile processed, the scorecard or bit indicators are asserted to indicate that the tile has been processed. Assignment jobs, which involve codewords having information from symbols in multiple tiles are processed after all of the pertinent tiles are tile processed. The scorecard information is accessible for assignment processing to determine which tiles have been processed, thus affording synchronization of tile processing with assignment processing, while maximizing the independence of these two processing operations. Tile processing operations may further use the scorecard information to prioritize or order tile processing in relation to known queued assignment jobs.