Patent ID: 8462738

Claim:
A method for use in wireless communication, the method comprising: selecting a transport format resource combination (TFRC), wherein, as part of the TFRC selection, a number of spreading codes is selected subject to a limitation by a code rate used for error correction; and transmitting a message in accordance with the selected TFRC, wherein the TFRC is selected by: generating a plurality of TFRCs based on a reported channel quality indicator (CQI) value and a minimum transport block (TB) success probability; grouping the generated TFRCs based on a transport block set size (TBSS) associated with each generated TFRC; determining a TFRC for each group based on a number of spreading codes associated with each TFRC in the group that have an acceptable associated code rate for a modulation type; associating a modulation type with each determined TFRC based on a code rate threshold test; and selecting a TFRC from the determined TFRCs based on the TBSS associated with each TFRC, the reported CQI value, and the minimum TB success probability.