Patent ID: 8693352

Claim:
A method of transmitting automatic repeat request (ARQ) signaling from a wireless communication transceiver to respective ones of a plurality of remote transceivers, the method comprising: receiving signals from given ones of the remote transceivers and decoding them; generating non-acknowledgment (nack) signals for those received signals that failed decoding and acknowledgment (ack) signals for those received signals that passed decoding; setting a transmit power level for at least one of the ack signals based at least in part on the amount of channel resources allocated for transmission of the corresponding received signal; and transmitting the ack and nack signals; wherein setting a transmit power level for at least one of the ack signals comprises: setting the transmit power level to a nominal level if the amount of channel resources allocated for transmission of the corresponding received signal is below a defined allocation threshold; and setting the transmit power level to a boosted level if the amount of channel resources allocated for transmission of the corresponding received signal is above the defined allocation threshold.