US Patent 7965710 Decoding operations in normal transmission mode

Various decoders, methods, systems, and devices are provided that selectively employ a decoding operation as a function of the size of a received data packet. In at least some embodiments, a first decoding operation is performed on data packets within a first size range. A second decoding operation(s), different from the first, is (are) performed on data packets within a second size range. In at least some embodiments, the first decoding operation is a sliding-window decoding operation and the second decoding operation is one other than a sliding-window decoding operation.