Patent ID: 7751356
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an idle mode in a mobile station, the method comprising: receiving, by a mobile station, a first channel descriptor message including a configuration change count; maintaining, by the mobile station, the configuration change count; receiving, by the mobile station, a map message comprising a channel descriptor count and an information element including a channel descriptor indication field, wherein the channel descriptor indication field indicates a frame where a second channel descriptor message is transmitted; and if the channel descriptor count is different from the configuration change count maintained by the mobile station, decoding, by the mobile station, the frame to receive the second channel descriptor message indicated by the channel descriptor indication field, even if the mobile station is scheduled to be in a paging unavailable interval of the idle mode, wherein the first channel descriptor message and second channel descriptor message comprise forward error correction (FEC) code type information.