Patent ID: 7941172

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving power control instructions via a first link in a first plurality of frames, the power control instructions being sent from a first station to a second station and used to adjust transmit power of the second station; keeping a running history, up to a predetermined length, of the received power control instructions; and generating power control bits for transmission via a second link in a second plurality of frames, the power control bits being sent from the second station at an effectual response rate based at least in part on the running history being kept for the power control instructions received via the first link, the effectual response rate being a function of the predetermined length and directly proportional to a batch processing rate of a batching process, wherein m “zero” value power control bits and n “one” value power control bits are generated for each batch formed with a subset of the second plurality of frames, with m and n being integers determined based on number of power control instructions with “0” value and number of power control instructions with “1” value in the running history.