Patent ID: 8761144

Claim:
A method of decoding a transmission received by a wireless communication receiver comprising: receiving a transmission on a High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH), to be decoded according to an associated transport format specification previously received on a High Speed Shared Control Channel (HS-SCCH); determining that a transport format specification associated with the HS-DSCH transmission was not received on the HS-SCCH; in response to the determination that the receiver lacks a transport format specification associated with the HS-DSCH transmission, determining an allowed set of transport formats, and omitting at least one transport format from the allowed set to form a candidate set of transport formats applicable to the HS-DSCH transmission; partially decoding the received transmission according to each transport format in the candidate set; associating a quality metric with each transport format based on the partial decoding; and fully decoding the received HS-DSCH transmission according to a transport format selected based on the quality metrics.