Patent ID: 7200136

Claim:
A method for transmitting in a wireless network, comprising mapping format identification bits onto a frame which is being transmitted using a compressed mode, the method comprising the steps of: sending information, contained within a frame which is being transmitted using the compressed mode, compressed in time such that there is a transmission gap, which is not filled with information, within the compressed frame; mapping format identification bits in the compressed mode onto a specific number of format identification points which are available in a corresponding compressed frame, with the specific number being greater than a number of format identification bits; mapping the format identification bits following the transmission gap repeatedly after a first mapping of the format identification bits onto corresponding format identification points, in order to fill all the format identification points with a format identification bit; and mapping, after the first mapping of the format identification bits, the format identification bits following the transmission gap repeatedly in a reverse sequence, in order to fill the format identification points which are still unfilled in the compressed frame after the first mapping process with a format identification bit.