Patent ID: 8260308

Claim:
A method of optimizing a data format selection procedure (E-TFC) for up link transmission between a terminal and a base station, comprising: optimizing the number of time slots to be used by the terminal to detect a command value transmitted from the base station to use the entire period of time T limit , and executing an update, wherein the base station transmits a signal including at least one repetition command to the terminal in a predetermined number of time slots, the command constructed to update at least one predetermined parameter intervening in the data format selection, and the terminal detects, on receiving the signal, the command value and conducts the update according to the detected value during a time window having a predetermined period of time T limit ; calculating a period of time T rg between an end of the time slots and a start of the up link transmission; estimating a period of time T limit available to execute the update; comparing the period of time T rg with the period of time T limit ; and reducing, if the period of time T rg is less than the period of time T limit , the number of time slots dedicated to the signal detection.