A feedforward receiver and method are described herein that address inter-symbol interference in received symbols by using an enhanced equalizer to generate joint soft values and an enhanced decoder which uses the joint soft values and side information to output a more reliable information bit x. The sections in the display space are each assigned to a particular location of the display space, and representatives are provided which are each assigned to a particular section in the display space using an unambiguous relation. The master table stores a first assignment of application services to roles, and stores a second assignment of service attributes, such as language or industry branch, of the application services.