US 7,516,473 B1
Method and system for signaling
Alfons Eizenhoefer, Altdorf (Germany); Peter Kuczynski, Nuremberg (Germany); and Said Tatesh, Swindon (United Kingdom)
Assigned to Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, Pa. (US)
Filed on Jul. 16, 1999, as Appl. No. 9/356,260.
Claims priority of application No. 98305811 (EP), filed on Jul. 21, 1998.
Int. Cl. H04N 7/14 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 725—105  [370/345; 370/329; 370/321; 370/522; 455/515; 455/436] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of transmission in a multi-frame system, each frame of the multi-frame system being associated with a first type of control information, there further being provided a second type of control information comprising a code word, the method comprising:
a. partitioning the second type of control information into a number of sections;
b. forming a plurality of consecutive data frames for transmission, the number of consecutive data frames corresponding to the number of sections into which the code word is partitioned; and
c. transmitting with each frame of the plurality of consecutive data frames in the multi-frame:
i. the first type of control information for the respective frame; and
ii. a section of the partitioned second type of control information.