Patent ID: 7388856

Claim:
A method of coding a transport format combination indicator (TFCI) comprising: calculating a TFCI coded word 1 and a TFCI coded word 2 using a first set of bits (TFCI 1) and a second set of bits (TFCI 2); and determining bit positions (j 1 , j 2 ) of the calculated TFCI coded word 1 and TFCI coded word 2, wherein bit positions (j 1 ) for the first set of bits and bit positions (j 2 ) for the second set of bits are calculated using the following equations: j 1 = ⌊ 32 3 ⁢ k + 1 × ( i 1 + 1 - 1 2 ⁢ ⌊ k 5 ⌋ ) + 1 2 ⌋ - 1 ⁢ j 2 = ⌊ 32 32 - ( 3 ⁢ k + 1 ) × ( i 2 + 1 2 ⁢ ( 1 + ⌊ k 5 ⌋ ) ) + 1 2 ⌋ - 1 where i 1 =0, . . . , 3k, i 2 =0, . . . , 30-3k, and “k” indicates a number of bits for the TFCI.