Patent ID: 8316286

Claim:
A method for transmitting information, the method comprising: encoding a block of N bits, where N is an integer value; demultiplexing the encoded block of N bits into at least one subblock of systematic bits and at least one subblock of parity bits; permuting the at least one subblock of systematic bits and the at least one subblock of parity bits to generate at least one permuted subblock; forming at least one output block from the at least one permuted subblock; computing a starting position of a redundancy version for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission according to a relationship between N and a threshold, wherein in accordance with the starting position, a predetermined number of systematic bits are skipped when N exceeds the threshold, and no systematic bits are skipped when N fails to exceed the threshold; and transmitting the redundancy version, wherein the redundancy version begins at the computed starting position of the at least one output block and ends when a specified number of bits has been transmitted.