Patent ID: 9661651
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of communicating with a network at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the UE being simultaneously connected to a first eNB and a second eNB, the UE including a processor having a first medium access control (MAC) entity corresponding to the first eNB and a second MAC entity corresponding to the second eNB, the method comprising: generating a buffer status report (BSR) for the first eNB, the BSR including information on an amount of data to be transmitted to the first eNB; when the first MAC entity cannot transmit the BSR to the first eNB, forwarding the BSR for the first eNB by the first MAC entity to the second MAC entity, and starting a timer; and transmitting, by the second MAC entity to the second eNB, the BSR to the second eNB for forwarding to the first eNB, wherein the first MAC entity does not forward any additional BSR for the first eNB to the second MAC entity of the UE while the timer is running.