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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2011
Applicants:

Brian A. Banister, Moscow, ID (US);

Patrick Owsley, Moscow, ID (US);

Sean M. Collison, Meridian, ID (US);

Inventors:

Brian A. Banister, Moscow, ID (US);

Patrick Owsley, Moscow, ID (US);

Sean M. Collison, Meridian, ID (US);

Assignee:

Comtech EF Data Corp., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/03 (2006.01); H03M 13/19 (2006.01); H03M 13/37 (2006.01); H03M 13/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/616 (2013.01); H03M 13/19 (2013.01); H03M 13/3776 (2013.01); H03M 13/451 (2013.01); H03M 13/6561 (2013.01); H03M 13/6577 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of searching for candidate codewords for a telecommunications system, the method comprising receiving a sequence of constellation points, producing a received FEC vector comprised of bits from the received constellation points, comparing the received FEC vector with a plurality of candidate codewords within a Dorsch decoding process using an ordered pattern, and terminating the search when a candidate codeword from among the plurality of candidate codewords is found residing within a predetermined range of a specified distance of the received FEC vector.


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