Patent ID: 7995540

Claim:
A method for configuring a channel of a Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system, said Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system implementing a phase of communicating data conveyed by a plurality of transport channels, said Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and at least one receiving entity for communicating said data, said phase of communicating data comprising a plurality of rate matching steps, each of said plurality of rate matching steps executing a transformation of an input block of an initial size into an output block of a final size by puncturing or repeating at least one bit of said input block, said method comprising: sending, by said at least one receiving entity, a plurality of rate matching parameters, each of said plurality of rate matching parameters being relative to a rate matching ratio for one of said plurality of transport channels; receiving, by said at least one sending entity, said plurality of rate matching parameters from said at least one receiving entity; calculating, by said at least one sending entity, an intermediate size of said output block, for each of said plurality of transport channels, by multiplying said initial size of said input block by a corresponding rate matching parameter received from said at least one receiving entity; and determining, by said at least one sending entity, an available maximum payload, for at least one radio frame, from among a plurality of possible maximum payloads on a basis of a size of a possible maximum payload and a total sum of said intermediate sizes of said output blocks, each of said possible maximum payloads being relative to at least one radio frame.