Patent ID: 7209712

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving a link quality indicator, the link quality indicator one of a plurality of link quality indicator values; determining a conditional probability for each of the plurality of link quality indicator values, wherein the link quality indicator is a full link quality indicator, and wherein the link quality indicator is a measure of the Carrier to Interference ratio (C/I); evaluating ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ Ci ⁢ P ⁡ ( R | Ci ) ⁢ P ⁡ ( Ci ) ∑ j = 1 n ⁢ P ⁡ ( R | Cj ) ⁢ P ⁡ ( Cj ) , wherein n is the total number of link quality values, C i represents each link quality indicator, R represents the received link quality indicator, P(|) is a conditional probability operator, and i and j are indices; selecting one of the plurality of link quality indicators values based on the conditional probabilities, wherein selecting one of the plurality of link quality indicator values considers the minimum mean square error.