Patent ID: 9271280
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented by a radio network controller (RNC) of managing medium access control (MAC) resources, the method comprising: configuring an enhanced MAC entity for each of one or more common enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resources, wherein each of the one or more common E-DCH resources is used for communications with at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) that uses common E-DCH for common control channel (CCCH) transmission in at least one of a cell forward access channel (CELL_FACH) state or an idle mode; and sending one or more signals to a Node-B identifying the one or more common E-DCH resources, the one or more signals indicating to the Node-B to configure an enhanced MAC entity in the Node-B for each of the identified common E-DCH resources.