US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Aug. 5 for "Using erasure coding on partial code block communication interruption" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,581, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Using erasure coding on partial code block communication interruption" was invented by Victor Liau (Germantown, Md.), Mustafa Eroz (Germantown, Md.) and Lin-Nan Lee (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for recovering from communication interruptions by a periodic blockage. This is achieved by selecting an inner code block rate that supports a Packet Error Ratio (PER) equal to or greater than a target PER during the blockage. An expected number of erasures is estimated and an outer code block rate capable of correcting an e...