Patent ID: 8543867

Claim:
A communication device configured for compression and transmission of Acknowledgement and Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), comprising: a processor; memory in electronic communication with the processor; instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable to: determine one or more thresholds based on a size of one or more code words; generate a compressed ACK/NACK sequence, wherein: the compressed ACK/NACK sequence identifies one or more correctly received code words and one or more incorrectly received code words if the number of incorrectly received code words is less than a first threshold of the one or more thresholds; and the compressed ACK/NACK sequence indicates that all of the one or more code words were incorrectly received if the number of incorrectly received code words is greater than the first threshold; wherein the communication device is selected from the group consisting of a wireless communication device and a base station.