Appeal No. 2000-1900
Application No. 08/669,937
7. A method for transmitting, comprising the steps of:
performing a first coding of bits to be transmitted,
using a first code, to generate first coded bits;
performing a second coding of the first coded bits,
using a second code, to generate second coded bits;
transmitting the second coded bits over a TDMA
communication channel to a receiver;
receiving the second coded bits at the receiver as one
or more possibly corrupted codewords; and
decoding the second coded bits by correcting, in a
first decoder, corrupted codewords within a threshold
mathematical distance or generating, in the first decoder,
erasures for all corrupted codewords not within the
threshold mathematical distance; and
correcting, in a second decoder, errors and erasures
generated by the first decoder.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Saleh et al. (Saleh) 5,048,057 Sep. 10, 1991
Wei 5,088,113 Feb. 11, 1992
McConnell 5,206,864 Apr. 27, 1993
Boyd et al. (Boyd), “A Concatenated Coding Approach for High Data
Rate Applications,” NTC ‘77 Conference Record, Vol. 3, pp.36:2-1
to 36:2-7 (1977).
Hassan et al. (Hassan), “On Decoding Concatenated Codes,” 36 IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, No. 3, pp. 677-83 (May 1990).
Claims 1, 3, 4, 12, and 14-16 stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Wei in view of
Saleh. Claims 7, 9-11, and 17-21 stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Hassan in view of
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