the received transmission to produce an incoming sample stream the incoming sample stream is decoded by a plurality of different decoding operations to produce respectively a plurality of decoded sample streams it is determined whether the received transmission is decodable from any of the decoded sample streams application_number US 201414271854 A description example embodiments of the present work are described below in connection with the prior art can receiver example as will be apparent to workers in the art however the present work finds application in many communication receivers that would otherwise require an accurate and costly sample clock referring again to fig1 the sampling interval of the sample clock 11 nominally corresponds to a bit interval that temporally separates serially adjacent ones of the transmitted bits thus when the sample clock 11 is at its nominal sampling frequency f the sampling interval is the same as the bit interval so each bit may be properly sampled if however the actual frequency of the sample clock 11 drifts away from f e g due to insufficient accuracy frequency tolerance sampling points may become temporally misaligned with transmitted bits making proper sampling problematic fig2 diagrammatically illustrates a communication receiver apparatus according to example embodiments of the present work the receiver portion of transceiver 12 samples in response to a u00d7 n oversampling clock 22 at the clk input the oversampling clock 22 has a frequency that is n times the frequency of the sampling clock 11 of fig1 i e n u00d7 f the transceiver 12 see also fig1 receives the oversampling clock 22 at its clk input and samples the signaling on bus 15 in the same fashion as in the conventional example of fig1 but at a sampling interval defined by the frequency of the.