Patent ID: 8243756

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by an apparatus a transmission comprising source data from an information source; determining, by the apparatus, an estimate of the source data using a quantization technique based on maximizing data throughput, wherein the quantization technique operates to maximize mutual information between the source data and the determined estimate of the source data; and transmitting, by the apparatus, a message comprising the determined estimate towards an information destination, wherein the quantization technique operates to maximize mutual information between the source data and the determined estimate of the source data by maximizing an objective function given by: I ( X 1 ;{circumflex over (V)} 1 )= H ( {circumflex over (V)} 1 )− H ( {circumflex over (V)} 1 |X 1 ), wherein I is an information function, H is an information entropy function or Shannon entropy, X 1 is the source data and {circumflex over (V)} 1 is the determined estimate of the source data, wherein the quantization technique operates within a constraint given by: H ⁡ ( V ^ 1 ) ≤ t ′ t ⁢ R , wherein the transmission comprising the source data is received from the information source during a first time slot of duration t and the message comprising the determined estimate is transmitted towards the information destination during a second time slot of duration t′, wherein t′=(1−t), wherein R is a data rate for the transmission from the apparatus towards the information destination.