Patent ID: 7415040

Claim:
A method of data processing at a transmitting side having a radio resource control (RRC) layer, a medium access control (MAC) layer, and a physical (PHY) layer for establishing transport formats to efficiently transmit data to a receiving side, the method comprising: assigning, at the radio resource control (RRC) layer, a transport format combination set (TFCS) to the medium access control (MAC) layer; selecting at the MAC layer transport formats within said assigned transport format combination set (TFCS); transferring transport format indicators corresponding to the selected transport formats from the MAC layer to the physical (PHY) layer; and transmitting at the physical (PHY) layer, a transport format combination indicator on a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) to the receiving side, wherein the transport format combination indicator (TFCI) is appended to the dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) based on the transport format indicators transferred by the MAC layer.