Patent ID: 8705385

Claim:
A method comprising: at a base station having an air interface, during a nominal time interval equal to one frame, receiving a transmission on the air interface from an access terminal being served by the base station; at the base station, upon completion of the nominal time interval, making a determination that the transmission has not been successfully decoded into a frame of data; at the base station, in response to making the determination, commencing an extended decoding interval during which attempted decoding of the transmission continues; at the base station, making a signal-to-noise measurement of transmission power received on the air interface from the access terminal; at the base station, dynamically adjusting an end time of the extended decoding interval based on the signal-to-noise measurement, the dynamically adjusted end time being measured from a time of completion of the nominal time interval; and at the base station, continuing attempted decoding of the transmission until the dynamically adjusted end time of the extended decoding interval.