Patent ID: 7823040

Claim:
A method of communicating a message from a transmitting station to a receiving station, the method comprising the step of: adaptively selecting a retransmission version from a plurality of redundancy versions (RVs) based on at least one changing transmission variable, wherein adaptively selecting said retransmission version from a plurality of RVs based on at least one changing transmission variable further comprises adaptively selecting said retransmission version from a plurality of RVs defined for a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) transmission and wherein adaptively selecting said HSDPA retransmission version further comprises selecting said RV for a Quadrature Phase-shift Keying (QPSK) mode according to an RV sequence [0 7 3 4 1 6 5 2].