H04L 25/067
Providing soft decisions, i.e. decisions together with an estimate of reliability
Official title: {providing soft decisions, i.e. decisions together with an estimate of reliability (H04L25/068 and H04L25/069 take precedence; sequence estimation techniques H04L25/03178)}
H04L25/067 (Providing soft decisions, i.e. decisions together with an estimate of reliability) appears on 1,106 US grants and 1,088 published applications in this corpus.
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