Patent ID: 7924776
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing an assignment acknowledgement, the method comprising: receiving a forward link overhead channel message at an access terminal (AT), the overhead channel message comprising a parameter used to indicate which shared control channel (SCCH) data blocks are to be acknowledged by the AT; receiving a forward link SCCH signal comprising SCCH data blocks; decoding the SCCH data blocks according to parameters provided by the overhead channel message; detecting a change in access terminal assignment for the AT based upon the SCCH signal; receiving forward link packet data at the AT via a data channel; identifying an offset which defines that a certain number of subpackets of the packet data have been transmitted before the assignment acknowledgement is to be transmitted according to parameters provided by the overhead channel message; and transmitting the assignment acknowledgement according to the offset to indicate successful decoding of one of the SCCH data blocks only if the packet data has not been acknowledged, and if the overhead channel message indicates that the block is to be acknowledged.