Patent ID: 8750227
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of scheduling data transmissions between a mobile terminal and a base station in a wireless communications network arranged for the transmission of multiple system carrier signals, each system carrier providing for the transmission of signals in a predetermined bandwidth around the carrier, the method comprising: receiving, in the mobile terminal, information from the base station indicating available system carriers, transmitting, from the mobile terminal to the base station, information indicating a capability of the mobile terminal to handle non-contiguous system carriers; detecting, in the mobile terminal, at least one dynamic parameter indicative of a current capability of the mobile terminal to handle non-contiguous system carriers; determining, in the mobile terminal and from the at least one dynamic parameter, whether a situation has occurred in which the capability of the mobile terminal to handle non-contiguous system carriers has changed; in response to determining that the capability of the mobile terminal to handle non-contiguous system carriers has changed, the mobile terminal both: