Patent ID: 8638741

Claim:
A method for determining a retransmission mode of a retransmission protocol for data transmissions provided to a communication terminal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a control message related to a plurality data transmissions, wherein the control message comprises a field indicating one of a plurality of codepoints, wherein the plurality of codepoints is divided into at least two subsets, each subset of codepoints indicating a respective value of a retransmission mode for the plurality of data transmissions indicated by the control message, a first value of the retransmission mode indicating an acknowledgement bundling mode and a second value of the retransmission mode indicating an acknowledgement non-bundling mode, and determining whether the retransmission mode is either the acknowledgement bundling mode or the acknowledgement non-bundling mode based on the received one of the plurality of codepoints signalled in said field of the control message.