Patent ID: 8116283

Claim:
A method of sending data in a wireless communication system, comprising: sending, by an Access Terminal, a first set of slots of a first packet to an Access Network, the slots being a subset of a plurality of slots of the first packet and including a configurable number of slots; sending, by the Access Terminal, a first set of slots of a second packet to the Access Network, the slots being a subset of a plurality of slots of the second packet and including a configurable number of slots; receiving, at the Access Terminal, an acknowledge message (ACK) from the Access Network corresponding to a successful decoding of the first set of slots of the first packet, or a negative acknowledge message (NAK) corresponding to an unsuccessful decoding of the first set of slots of the first packet; sending, by the Access Terminal, when an ACK has been received, a first set of slots of a third packet to the Access Network, the slots being a subset of a plurality of slots of the third packet and including a configurable number of slots; sending, by the Access Terminal, when a NAK has been received, a second set of slots of the first packet to the Access Network; receiving, at the Access Terminal, an ACK from the Access Network corresponding to a successful decoding of the first set of slots of the second packet, or a NAK corresponding to an unsuccessful decoding of the first set of slots of the second packet; sending, by the Access Terminal, when an ACK corresponding to a successful decoding of the first set of slots of the second packet has been received, a first set of slots of a fourth packet to the Access Network, the slots being a subset of a plurality of slots of the fourth packet and including a configurable number of slots if an ACK corresponding to a successful decoding of the first set of slots of the first packet was received, or a first set of slots of the third packet to the Access Network if a NAK corresponding to an unsuccessful decoding of the first set of slots of the first packet was received; gating off, by the Access Terminal, for a predetermined period of time; and sending, by the Access Terminal, when a NAK corresponding to an unsuccessful decoding of the first set of slots of the second packet has been received, a second set of slots of the second packet to the Access Network.