Patent ID: 9461782
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method in a radio base station, said radio base station being configured to participate in inter-site High-Speed Downlink Packet Access Multiflow Data Transmission (HSDPA MF) operation wherein data is communicated to a first user equipment via the radio base station and at least one other radio base station and wherein data is communicated from a radio network controller to the radio base station and the at least one other radio base station in Medium Access Control-dedicated (MAC-d) Protocol Data Units (PDUs), the method comprising: receiving a MAC-d PDU; associating a timer with the MAC-d PDU and setting the timer to expire after a predetermined time period; and discarding the received MAC-d PDU if no Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) process has been assigned for transfer of the MAC-d PDU to the first user equipment upon expiry of the timer.