Patent · US Expired

Multiple error trapping

US4843607A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 17, 1987
Grant dateJun 27, 1989
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Expiry dateDec 17, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/17
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

By translating in accordance with a predetermined permutation the virtual check locations of a virtual message re-encoder, plural erroneous symbols (up to a certain limit) occurring in any pattern in a received codeword may be trapped simultaneously in virtual check locations. By simply adding to them the corresponding virtual check symbols computed by the virtual message re-encoder, the correct codeword is easily obtained. In one embodiment of the invention, any pattern of two erroneous symbols in a codeword of length n may be trapped in this manner by defining the predetermined permutation in accordance with a modulus n cyclic difference set. In this embodiment, for an RS(31, 25) code, the cyclic difference set (0, 4, 10, 23, 24, 26) may be used as the predetermined permutation.

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