Patent ID: 8144712

Claim:
A wireless communication infrastructure entity, the entity comprising: a transceiver; a controller communicably coupled to the transceiver, the controller configured to encode a downlink system information block message and to select a portion of the encoded message for transmission in a sub-frame of a system information window, each sub-frame of the system information window having a corresponding sub-frame number in the system information window, the selection of the portion of the encoded message based on a redundancy version (RV) indicator, wherein the RV indicator is selected as follows: sub-frame number modulo 4=0 is mapped to RV 0 ; sub-frame number modulo 4=1 is mapped to RV 2 ; sub-frame number modulo 4=2 is mapped to RV 3 ; and sub-frame number modulo 4=3 is mapped to RV 1 .