Patent ID: 8094626

Claim:
A method for a Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system implemented by a mobile station, said Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system implementing a phase of communicating data conveyed by a plurality of transport channels, said Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system comprising at least one base station and at least said mobile station, said mobile station performing a plurality of rate matching steps, each of said rate matching steps executing a transformation of an input block of an initial size into an output block of a final size by puncturing or repeating at least one bit of said input block, said method comprising: receiving a plurality of rate matching parameters from said base station, each of said plurality of rate matching parameters being relative to a rate matching ratio for one of said plurality of transport channels; calculating an intermediate size of said output block, for each of said plurality of transport channels, by multiplying said initial size of said input block by a corresponding rate matching parameter received from said base station; and determining, with said mobile station, an available maximum payload for a communication in the Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system, for at least one radio frame, from among a plurality of possible maximum payloads on a basis of a size of a possible maximum payload and a total sum of said intermediate sizes of said output blocks, each of said plurality of possible maximum payloads being relative to at least one radio frame.