Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
151 words
A multiple access system of communication, comprising: a Turbo encoder for Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; a transmitter for transmitting a first signal representation of a packet of information and a second signal which include a re-transmission of part of the first signal and a new signal representation of the packet of information; a Turbo decoder processor; a first input system for receiving soft bit metrics within the first transmitted signal representation and inputting the metrics into the Turbo decoder processor; and a second input system for receiving the second signal and splitting the second signal into a new signal representation and a re-transmitted part, the new signal representation being directly inputted into the Turbo decoder processor and the re-transmitted part being provided to a rake processor for combination with corresponding data from the first signal representation, the rake processor providing an output to the Turbo decoder processor.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
151 words
A multiple access system of communication, comprising: a Turbo encoder for Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; a transmitter for transmitting a first signal representation of a packet of information and a second signal which include a re-transmission of part of the first signal and a new signal representation of the packet of information; a Turbo decoder processor; a first input system for receiving soft bit metrics within the first transmitted signal representation and inputting the metrics into the Turbo decoder processor; and a second input system for receiving the second signal and splitting the second signal into a new signal representation and a re-transmitted part, the new signal representation being directly inputted into the Turbo decoder processor and the re-transmitted part being provided to a rake processor for combination with corresponding data from the first signal representation, the rake processor providing an output to the Turbo decoder processor.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
128 words
A method of communication within a multiple access system of communication, comprising the steps of: Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; transmitting a first signal representation of a packet of information and a second signal which includes a re-transmission of part of the first signal and a new signal representation of the packet of information; receiving soft bit metrics within the first transmission and inputting the metrics into a Turbo decoder processor; receiving the second signal and splitting the second signal into a new signal representation and a re-transmitted part; inputting the new signal representation directly into the Turbo decoder processor; combining the re-transmitted part with corresponding data from the first signal representation in a rake processor; and providing the combination to the Turbo decoder processor.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
128 words
A method of communication within a multiple access system of communication, comprising the steps of: Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; transmitting a first signal representation of a packet of information and a second signal which includes a re-transmission of part of the first signal and a new signal representation of the packet of information; receiving soft bit metrics within the first transmission and inputting the metrics into a Turbo decoder processor; receiving the second signal and splitting the second signal into a new signal representation and a re-transmitted part; inputting the new signal representation directly into the Turbo decoder processor; combining the re-transmitted part with corresponding data from the first signal representation in a rake processor; and providing the combination to the Turbo decoder processor.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
134 words
A multiple access communication system comprising: a Turbo encoder for Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; a transmitter for transmitting a punctured output from the Turbo encoder as a first transmission and transmitting a combination of part of the first punctured output from the Turbo encoder and a new punctured output from the Turbo encoder as a second transmission; a Turbo decoder; an input system for feeding soft bit metrics within the received first transmission to the Turbo decoder; a data splitter for splitting the second transmission into its parts and feeding the new punctured output part directly to the Turbo decoder; and a rake processor for combing the first punctured output part from the data splitter with corresponding bits of the first transmission, and feeding the combination to the Turbo decoder.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
134 words
A multiple access communication system comprising: a Turbo encoder for Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; a transmitter for transmitting a punctured output from the Turbo encoder as a first transmission and transmitting a combination of part of the first punctured output from the Turbo encoder and a new punctured output from the Turbo encoder as a second transmission; a Turbo decoder; an input system for feeding soft bit metrics within the received first transmission to the Turbo decoder; a data splitter for splitting the second transmission into its parts and feeding the new punctured output part directly to the Turbo decoder; and a rake processor for combing the first punctured output part from the data splitter with corresponding bits of the first transmission, and feeding the combination to the Turbo decoder.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
25 words
The system of claim 3, wherein the turbo decoder performs a Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm (SOVA) upon each of the inputs to the Turbo decoder.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
124 words
A method of communication within a multiple access system, comprising the steps of: Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; transmitting a punctured output from the turbo encoding step as a first transmission; transmitting a part of the first transmission in combination with a new punctured output from the turbo encoding step as a second transmission; feeding the soft bit metrics within the received first transmission to a Turbo decoder; splitting the received second transmission into two parts; feeding the new punctured output part directly to the Turbo decoder; combining the part of the first transmission part from the splitting step with corresponding bits of the received first transmission using rake processing; and feeding the resulting rake processed combination to the Turbo decoder.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
124 words
A method of communication within a multiple access system, comprising the steps of: Turbo encoding signal representations of packets of information; transmitting a punctured output from the turbo encoding step as a first transmission; transmitting a part of the first transmission in combination with a new punctured output from the turbo encoding step as a second transmission; feeding the soft bit metrics within the received first transmission to a Turbo decoder; splitting the received second transmission into two parts; feeding the new punctured output part directly to the Turbo decoder; combining the part of the first transmission part from the splitting step with corresponding bits of the received first transmission using rake processing; and feeding the resulting rake processed combination to the Turbo decoder.