Patent ID: 7649959

Claim:
A method comprising: defining a set including a plurality of transmission modes for a signal; dividing the set into a plurality of subsets, wherein each of the plurality of subsets includes a plurality of transmission modes; defining a plurality of signal portions of the signal; selecting a transmission mode subset from the plurality of subsets for transmission of the signal from a first device to a second device; for each of the plurality of signal portions, selecting a signal portion transmission mode from the plurality of transmission modes of the selected transmission mode subset; defining semantic bits, the semantic bits including a plurality of bits that indicate the selected transmission mode subset; defining an indicator bit for each of the plurality of signal portions, the indicator bit indicating the selected signal portion transmission mode for the respective signal portion; and transmitting the semantic bits and the indicator bit for each of the plurality of signal portions from a first device to a second device; wherein the semantic bits and the indicator bit for each of the plurality of signal portions specify a transmission mode for each of the plurality of signal portions of the signal.