Patent ID: 8559461

Claim:
A method of transmitting message packets from a sending node to a receiving node comprising the steps of: a) in a sending node, i) forming an initial message packet comprising the concatenation of a message packet preamble comprising a plurality of segments and a data field comprising a plurality of data symbols; and ii) transmitting the initial message packet; b) in a receiving node: i) detecting the initial message packet and from the detected initial message packet, determining at least one unknown signal characteristic of the initial message packet; and ii) transmitting to the sending node an implicit response that an unknown characteristic has been determined; c) in the sending node, receiving the implicit response that the unknown characteristic has been determined; and d) in the sending node: i) in response to receiving the implicit response, forming an optimized message packet by removing at least one segment from the preamble of the initial message packet; and ii) transmitting the optimized message packet.