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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2009
Applicant:
Phat Tran, Waterloo, CA;
Inventor:
Phat Tran, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system of decoding a convolutionally encoded data block having known padding bits. A Viterbi decoder is constrained to a state corresponding to k−1 padding bits immediately adjacent to data bits of the data block, where k is a constraint length of a convolution encoder used to encode the data block. Symbols of the encoded data block that have influence only from the padding bits are discarded.