Patent ID: 7813704

Claim:
A method for controlling the transmission power in a radio system, the method comprising the steps of: evaluating a signal received by a receiver via a transmission channel of the radio system from a transmitter; producing power control information as a function of the signal; embedding the power control information in a timeslot structure together with further data to be transmitted in the same timeslot to said transmitter coding, in the receiver, the power control information in one time slot in a manner where the power control information is coded, with the addition of redundancy, together with the further data to be transmitted in the same time slot to form a common data word, with at least one bit value in the data word depending on the power control information and on the further data; and transmitting the coded power control information in one timeslot to the transmitter, together with the further data to be transmitted in the same time slot; and setting, in the transmitter, the transmission power as a function of the transmitted coded power control information.