Patent ID: 7468967

Claim:
A method for signaling control information in a communication of data, the method comprising the steps of: channel coding the data to form channel coded data; interleaving the channel coded data to form interleaved data; segmenting the interleaved data into a sequence of frames; converting control information which has a low bit size to at least one codeword by generating a plurality of codewords and indexing the control information, wherein generating the plurality of codewords includes selecting a maximal length sequence n, where n is an integer, and generating 2n+2 sequences, each of the sequences having n bit length and indicating one codeword of the plurality of codewords, and wherein indexing the control information includes indexing the control information to at least one codeword of the plurality of codewords; and overwriting a portion of a frame in the sequence of frames with the control information, wherein said overwriting step is performed for a number of frames in the sequence of frames that is less than about 20% of the frames in the sequence of frames.