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Abstract

A more robust error correction capability is provided for the control data passed between a remote handset and its base unit in a DECT digital cordless telephone. According to the DECT standard as implemented in digital cordless telephones, one communication channel is used for control data and another is used for the voice data. While the DECT standard allows proprietary formats to be transmitted in the voice data channel, it fixes the information transmitted in the control data to ensure interoperability. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, the data rate of the voice data is reduced from a conventional 32 kb/s to provide bandwidth for error protection information. The error protection information may include, e.g., a redundant copy of the control data to provide the basis for a diversity scheme to improve the reliability of the control data transmission. Additionally, or alternatively, the error protection information may include error correction information, e.g., forward error correction information, relating to the control data and/or to the voice data to improve the reliability of the control data and/or voice data being transmitted. The error protection information may be combined with the voice data in the single communication channel time slot by, e.g., multiplexing, or apportioning of the time slot.

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