Method and apparatus for error correction processing in a radio communication device

摘要

A method (400) for error correction processing of a repeat message in a messaging system where each repeat message contains errors in different portions of the repeat message includes the steps in a portable subscriber unit (122) of receiving a first copy containing a first set of errors (402) and receiving a subsequent copy containing a subsequent set of errors (406). A comparison (410) between the first set and subsequent set of errors is done to eliminate (412) any non-recurring errors in forming an error reduced message. The error reduced message is corrected as necessary if an nth copy of the repeat message is received and if errors remain in the error reduced message by comparing a set of remaining errors in the error reduced message with an nth set of errors found in the nth copy of the repeat message to eliminate any further non-recurring errors.