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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Applicants:
Jason Robert Duggan, Kanata, CA;
Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Kanata, CA;
Timothy James Creasy, Kanata, CA;
Inventors:
Jason Robert Duggan, Kanata, CA;
Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Kanata, CA;
Timothy James Creasy, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H03M 13/37 (2006.01); H03M 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/20 (2006.01); H03M 13/11 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01); H03M 13/23 (2006.01); H03M 13/29 (2006.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/3707 (2013.01); H03M 13/6306 (2013.01); H04L 1/0021 (2013.01); H04L 1/0036 (2013.01); H04L 1/0045 (2013.01); H04L 1/0053 (2013.01); H04L 1/1829 (2013.01); H04L 1/20 (2013.01); H03M 13/1102 (2013.01); H03M 13/15 (2013.01); H03M 13/1515 (2013.01); H03M 13/23 (2013.01); H03M 13/2909 (2013.01); H03M 13/2957 (2013.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and device for performing forward error (FEC) correction avoidance based upon predicted block code reliability in a communications device is provided. An avoidance unit comprising a metric computation unit and a decision unit generates a reliability metric based upon a received code block. The reliability metric is compared to a reliability threshold, and the forward error correction decoder in the communications device is disabled if the metric is below or equal to the threshold.