Patent ID: 8085738

Claim:
A method for scheduling radio resources in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a transport channel preamble; receiving a response to the transport channel preamble, wherein the response is transmitted by a base station after the base station determines that the transport channel preamble satisfies predetermined criteria, and wherein the response comprises a request to retransmit the transport channel preamble if it is determined that the transport channel preamble does not satisfy the predetermined criteria, and the response comprises an indication of allocated radio resources if it is determined that the transport channel preamble satisfies the predetermined criteria; and one of retransmitting the transport channel preamble and transmitting information using allocated radio resources, wherein the transport channel preamble is retransmitted if the response comprises the request to retransmit the transport channel preamble and the information is transmitted if the response comprises the indication of allocated radio resources.