Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating source data between a source device and a listener device are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, source data is encoded by organizing at least a selected portion of source data into a data block having rows and columns. Encoded columns are formed by appending to each column error correction data derived from that column using a selected error correction code. Encoded rows are formed by appending to each row error correction data derived from that row using a selected error correct code. In an exemplary embodiment, encoded rows of source data (together with appended FEC data) and a first predetermined number of rows of FEC data are transmitted together, such that the first predetermined number of rows is less than all rows of error correction data. In an exemplary embodiment, source data is organized using interleaving.

Abstract: A mobile device detects downlink transmit diversity. Slot and frame timing knowledge and a downlink scrambling code are applied to pilot and synch channels of the signal. An algorithm suited for the diversity case and an algorithm suited for the non-diversity case are utilized. The output of the diversity algorithm is compared to the output of the non-diversity algorithm. The output yielding the highest energy determines whether downlink transmit diversity is applied. The detection algorithms used in both the diversity and non-diversity cases use phasors to indicate the phase difference between two channels. This phase difference is the basis for determining diversity usage.

Abstract: For use in a digital signal processing system, a filter implementation factors in the time difference between consecutive searches for the same signal and modifies the filter depending on the time-arrival differences of consecutive search results. An example application to which the invention is particularly well adapted is in a mobile receiver for a cellular radiotelephone communications system. In accordance with the present invention, after determining a relative arrival time of data sample sets in the stream of data samples, the mobile station includes a receiver arrangement configured to filter a stream of data samples arriving at irregular intervals, to provide a relative arrival time of data sample sets in the stream of data samples, and in response to determining the relative arrival time, to filter the data sample sets using value assignments that are exponentially weighted for the data sample sets. The data sample sets are weighted more than data sample sets arriving early.

Abstract: A cellular radio communication system has a number of cells covered by base stations communicating with mobile communication devices. The mobile communication device performs an idle handoff method. In the idle handoff method, the communication mobile device receives paging messages from a first base station, and initiates idle handoff from the first base station to a second base station if it is established that no other, critical idle-mode process with the first base station is being performed.