Method and apparatus to facilitate message transmission and reception using different transmission characteristics

摘要

Upon providing (101) message content (such as a remote control instruction) to be transmitted, and in conjunction with provision (102) of a plurality of different transmission characteristics (as correspond, for example, to different types of transmission) and a corresponding plurality of correlated recovery identifiers (103), a particular transmission characteristic is selected (104) and used to transmit (105) a joint message. n particular, in a preferred approach, the selected transmission characteristic (106) is used when transmitting at least a portion of the message content portion of the joint message while another part of the joint message carries the recovery identifier to thereby facilitate selection of an appropriate reception technique by a receiver when receiving the joint message.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
selecting a particular transmission characteristic from among a plurality of different transmission characteristics to provide a selected transmission characteristic; selecting a particular recovery identifier correlated to the selected transmission characteristic from a plurality of different recovery identifiers, wherein at least a portion of individual ones of the recovery identifiers is correlated to a given corresponding one of the plurality of different transmission characteristics; and transmitting from a transmitter a joint message comprising:
the selected recovery identifier; anda message content; wherein at least a portion of the joint message as comprises the message content is transmitted using the selected transmission characteristic, and wherein the joint message is configured to allow a receiver to configure itself in response to receipt of the joint message according to the selected transmission characteristic correlated to the recovery identifier to allow the receiver to receive the message content of the joint message, wherein the selecting the particular transmission characteristic comprises selecting the particular transmission characteristic based at least in part on at least a portion of the message content.