Patent ID: RE44927

Claim:
A method comprising: defining a set including a plurality of transmission modes for a signal; dividing the set into a plurality of subsets, wherein each of the plurality of subsets includes a plurality of transmission modes; defining a plurality of signal portions of the signal; selecting a transmission mode subset from the plurality of subsets for transmission of the signal from a first device to a second device; for each of the plurality of signal portions, selecting a signal portion transmission mode from the plurality of transmission modes of the selected transmission mode subset; defining semantic bits, the semantic bits including a plurality of bits that indicate the selected transmission mode subset; defining an indicator bit one or more indicator bit for each of the plurality of signal portions, the one or more indicator bit indicating the selected signal portion transmission mode for the respective signal portion; and transmitting from the first device to the second device the semantic bits and the for the selected transmission mode subset; and transmitting from the first device to the second device the one or more indicator bit for each of the plurality of signal portions from a first device to a second device; wherein the semantic bits and the indicator bit for each of the plurality of signal portions specify a transmission mode for each of the plurality of signal portions of the signal .