Patent ID: 7324785

Claim:
A method for transmit power control of transmitting wireless device, the method comprises: transmitting, by the transmitting wireless device, a packet to a targeted wireless device via a wireless channel at a first power level; determining, by the targeted wireless device, signal strength and decoding error information of the packet received via the wireless channel; determining, by the targeted wireless device, whether the signal strength is within an acceptable range of signals strengths; determining, by the targeted wireless device, whether the decoding error information is within an acceptable range of error rate; transmitting, by the targeted wireless device, a packet indicating the determined signal strength of the received packet to the transmitting wireless device via the wireless channel and a request for a transmitted power; and transmitting, by the transmitting wireless device, an indication of the transmitted power level wherein the target wireless device generates a power request indication based upon the received signal carrying the indication of the transmitted power level for the previous transmission.