Patent ID: 7471660

Claim:
A method for transmitting data with a defined number of bits via a physical channel in a communications system, the physical channel being used by at least one first communication device and one second communication device, the method comprising: providing that the data to be transmitted is composed of load data and identification data for identifying the second communication device; separately coding the load data and the identification data from each other using convultional coding, wherein a same number of bits is produced after the coding operation for the load data and the identification data; linking the coded load data and the coded identification data with each other via an XOR linking operation; and matching a data rate to the number of bits defined for the physical channel using a rate matching pattern selected from the group consisting of a rate matching pattern used immediately before the XOR linking operation and a rate matching pattern used immediately after the XOR linking operation, the rate matching pattern defining which bits in a data stream have at least one characteristic selected from the group consisting of being punctured and being repeated, wherein the rate matching pattern for the load data and the identification data is identical.