Patent ID: 8705460

Claim:
A method of operating transceiver circuitry for electronic communication that can employ any one of a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (“MCSs”), the method comprising: selecting a first MCS of the plurality of MCSs; using the first MCS to receive successive bursts of electronic data, at least some of the bursts requiring the transceiver circuitry to transmit an acknowledge (“ACK”) or non-acknowledge (“NAK”) signal respectively indicative of whether or not the transceiver circuitry correctly received the burst; maintaining an electronic record indicative of occurrences of the NAK signal for a predetermined number of the bursts; when occurrences of the NAK signal for the predetermined number of the bursts reach a threshold, causing the transceiver circuitry to select a second MCS of the plurality of MCSs; and using the selected second MCS to receive further successive bursts of electronic data.