Patent ID: 7606287

Claim:
Circuitry for use in a mobile terminal of a wireless communication network, where the wireless communication network is operable to communicate using spread spectrum communication, the circuitry comprising: at least one circuit that operates to, at least: evaluate, based at least in part on signal strength, an RF communication channel between a base station of the wireless communication network and the mobile terminal; select a desired data rate from a plurality of selectable data rates based on said evaluation of the RF communication channel; generate a message to be communicated to the base station, the message indicative of the selected data rate; and cause the mobile terminal to transmit the generated message to the base station, where the message causes the base station to select one of a plurality of different types of modulation and a type or degree of error correction coding to utilize for a future transmission to the mobile terminal over an RF communication channel that is multiplexed between the mobile terminal and at least a second mobile terminal that need not utilize the same type of modulation as the mobile terminal, the plurality of different types of modulation comprising at least a first type of multi-level modulation and a second type of multi-level modulation different from the first type of multi-level modulation.