Patent ID: 6865233

Claim:
A method of transferring information between a transmitting entity and a receiving entity comprising the steps of: identifying an initial modulation/coding scheme (MCS) in a command sent from the receiving entity to the transmitting entity; encoding initial blocks at data utilizing the identified initial MCS; transmitting the encoded initial blocks of data from the transmitting entity to the receiving entity; receiving indications sent from the receiving entity to the transmitting entity identifying initial blocks of data that could not be decoded; receiving a segmentation indicator sent from the receiving entity to the transmitting entity indicating whether the identified data blocks that the receiving entity could not decode should be resegmented by the transmitting entity prior to retransmission to the receiving entity, wherein the segmentation indicator is set to indicate that retransmitted data blocks should not be resegmented if a subblock memory in the receiving entity has sufficient memory space available to support an incremental redundancy mode of retransmitting the data blocks that could not be decoded; selecting by the transmitting entity, a retransmission MCS to be utilized for retransmitting the data blocks that the receiving entity could not decode; if the selected retransmission MCS is different from the initial MCS, re-encoding by the transmitting entity utilizing the selected retransmission MCS, the data blocks that the receiving entity could not decode; and retransmitting the re-encoded data blocks to the receiving entity, said retransmitted data blocks being resegmented or not resegmented in accordance with the segmentation indicator.