Patent ID: 8531965
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A message processing method, comprising: receiving, by a base station, a physical shared channel reconfiguration request transmitted from a radio network controller, the physical shared channel reconfiguration request comprising information for modifying configuration of a medium access control flow that is a data flow, wherein the information for modifying configuration of the medium access control flow comprises a transport bearer request indicator which indicates whether a transport bearer between the radio network controller and the base station corresponding to the medium access control flow needs to be reestablished and is valid only when the medium access control flow is reconfigured; and when the base station determines that the medium access control flow corresponding to the information for modifying configuration of the medium access control flow already exists in the base station, reconfiguring, by the base station, the medium access control flow and updating, by the base station, configuration of the transport bearer between the radio network controller and the base station corresponding to the medium access control flow when the base station determines that the transport bearer request indicator indicates that the transport bearer between the radio network controller and the base station needs to be reestablished.