Patent ID: 8620372
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for transport format combination selection in a mobile wireless communication device, the method comprising: in the mobile wireless communication device, when the mobile wireless communication device is connected to a wireless communication network through a first connection and a second connection simultaneously; monitoring an uplink transmit power level; selecting a first transport format combination that transmits frames over the first connection and not the second connection during a transmit time interval when the uplink transmit power level equals or exceeds a first threshold; and selecting a second transport format combination that transmits frames on both the first connection and the second connection during the transmit time interval when the uplink transmit power level equals or exceeds a second threshold and falls below the first threshold, wherein selecting the first transport format combination and the second transport format combination depends on an amount of frames awaiting transmission in buffers in the mobile wireless communication device.