Patent ID: 8767854

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a baseband processing module configured to: process first information bits using a first modulation coding set (MCS) to generate a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the first MCS is selected from a wireless communication protocol that includes a plurality of MCSs; and process second information bits using a second MCS that is excluded from the wireless communication protocol to generate a second OFDM symbol, wherein the second MCS is based on an integer number of data bits that is a product of a number of coded bits per OFDM symbol multiplied by a coding rate when the product is an integer value and that is based on a rounding product term function of the product when the product is a non-integer integer value, wherein the second MCS includes a modulation of 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and a code rate of 5/6 or a modulation of 64 QAM and a code rate of 3/4; and a radio configured to transmit the first and second OFDM symbols to at least one additional wireless communication device.