Patent ID: 8149810

Claim:
A system comprising: a first transceiver operative to transmit signals in accordance with a first transmit mode over a channel; and a second transceiver operative to receive the signals, the second transceiver including: a channel quality module operative to determine a channel quality statistic from the signals, a selection module operative to select N transmit modes from M transmit modes based on the determined channel quality statistic, where M>N and where N>1; and a transmit module operative to transmit a signal indicating the N transmit modes to the first transceiver; wherein the first transceiver is operative to transmit signals in accordance with a first one of the N transmit modes in response to receiving the signal indicating the N transmit modes from the second transceiver, and transmit signals in accordance with a second one of the N transmit modes in response to an indication that the signal transmitted in the first one of the N transmit modes was not received at the second transceiver, the first one of the N transmit modes being associated with a data rate higher than a data rate associated with the second one of the N transmit modes.