US Patent:
20080205648, Aug 28, 2008
Inventors:
STEVE MICHAEL HANOV - WATERLOO, CA
MARIANA LYU - PLANO TX, US
Assignee:
RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED - WATERLOO
International Classification:
H04K 1/00
Abstract:
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating transmission of block-formatted data by an EDGE-capable mobile station. When the mobile station is instructed to use an MCS-8 modulation coding scheme, in initial transmission of the data, the mobile station determines the amount of data that is to be transmitted. If only a single RLC block is to be transmitted at MCS-8, MCS-6 is instead utilized. And, padding bytes are added to the MCS-6 data blocks.