Patent ID: 8412217

Claim:
A method of initiating a wireless connection and subsequent communication over a shared physical resource in a wireless communication system between user equipment and network equipment, the method, by the user equipment, comprising: deriving a temporary identifier to be used by the network equipment to address the user equipment; deriving a channel set of at least one downlink channel for the user equipment to receive communications from the network equipment; transmitting an initial message to the network equipment, the initial message conveying the temporary identifier and a channel indication; receiving a downlink message using the channel set, wherein the channel set is based on the channel indication, wherein the downlink message conveys the temporary identifier and a description of a scheduled resource on a shared channel, the scheduled resource comprising a resource allocated to the user equipment by the network equipment, wherein the channel set comprises multiple channels that the user equipment monitors for the description of the scheduled resource on the shared channel; and communicating data on the scheduled resource in response to the downlink message; and facilitating a contention resolution procedure based on timing out in addition to the conveying of the channel indication in order to resolve a conflict where another user equipment derives a same temporary identifier to be used by the network equipment to address the another user equipment and a same channel set.