Patent ID: 7369499
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting data packets in a communication system between a transmitter and a receiver, comprising: transmitting the data packets in coded form as first coding units, associated with first data packets for which no coding units were transmitted previously, and second coding units, associated with second data packets for which first coding units were previously transmitted, but which failed to be decoded in the receiver, and which are used in the receiver, together with the second coding units, for decoding the second data packets; storing the data packets received from said transmitting in at least one of coded and uncoded form in a memory of the receiver; and informing the transmitter about the utilization level of the memory before the memory overflows; and temporarily increasing a ratio of the second coding units to the first coding units transmitted by the transmitter based on information about the utilization level of the memory.