Patent ID: 8780817

Claim:
A method of reducing overhead usage associated with communications, the method comprising: generating an acknowledgment (ACK) for a successfully received codeword from a group of codewords or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) for a codeword unsuccessfully received from the group of codewords; and populating a response information matrix with a plurality of response information elements, wherein the response information elements are determined as a function of the acknowledgement or the negative acknowledgement generated after receiving the successfully received codeword or the unsuccessfully received codeword; wherein the function further includes mapping the generated ACK or NACK based on a number of codewords in the group of codewords or a number of attempted transmissions of at least a portion of the codewords in the group of codewords; wherein the number of codewords in the group of codewords is determined by a number of communication channels available for a wireless communications device.