Patent ID: 8705431
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for application layer delivery of received packets in a wireless telecommunications system utilizing hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) and comprising at least one user equipment (UE) and at least one Base Transceiver Station (BTS) wherein the UE is in communication with the BTS, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a first frame comprising a data unit, from the UE into the BTS; transmitting subsequent frames before an acknowledge (ACK/NAK) message has been received in the UE, each subsequent frame comprising a repeat of the data unit in the first frame, from the UE into the BTS, a hybrid ARQ process number of the subsequent frames being the same as a hybrid ARQ process number of the first frame; and initiating a decoding process in the BTS after receiving the frame(s) using hybrid ARQ, wherein the decoding process is commenced according to a precondition, wherein the precondition comprises a hybrid ARQ process number of a frame being different than the hybrid ARQ process number of the first and subsequent frames, whereby the UE indicates to the BTS that the frame with the different hybrid ARQ process number does not comprise a repeat of the data unit in the first frame.