Patent ID: 7756080
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for reallocating transport format combination identifiers of transport format combinations upon removal of at least one transport format combination to be performed in a wireless system utilizing a flexible layer one to transfer data over the air interface thereof, where a number of transport formats indicating configurations of transport channels carrying data flows are included in a transport format combination, the transport format combination belonging to a transport format combination set indicating transport format combinations valid on a certain basic physical subchannel, the method comprises obtaining information about removal of at least one transport format combination from the transport format combination set in order to determine a first transport format combination identifier become vacant due to the removal of the associated transport format combination, assigning by a device said first vacant transport format combination identifier to a next unremoved transport format combination, if any, having a transport format combination identifier subsequent to the removed transport format combination, and likewise assigning the following transport format combination identifiers to further unremoved transport format combinations, if any, thus a number of last transport format combination identifiers previously in use become vacant, and reducing the length of the transport format combination identifiers by an amount dependent on the additional length required to be used to indicate a certain transport format combination identifier if the number of last transport format combination identifiers become vacant still included.