Patent ID: 7292601

Claim:
A method for transmitting incoming signal frames, in blocks having a fixed number of frames, comprising: (1) generating a frames-block i that includes k of said incoming signal frames, where i is an integer index; (2) transmitting frames-block i with a first power level; (3) determining whether said step of transmitting failed to correctly transmit j signal frames of said frames-block i, where j≧1 (4) when said step of determining concludes in the affirmative, (a) generating frames-block i+1 that includes said j frames of said block i that were not transmitted correctly, and k-j subsequent signal frames of said incoming signal frames that had not been included in said frames-block i; (b) transmitting frames-block i+1 with a power level that is higher than the power level employed in the immediately previous step of transmitting, wherein frames-block i+1 contains at least those of said frames-block i that failed to be transmitted correctly; and (c) incrementing i and returning to step (3).