Patent ID: 8155034

Claim:
A method for use in a cellular access system, in which system there is at least one Radio Base Station, RBS, which controls the traffic to and from a cell in the system, in which cell there can be a user with a User Equipment, UE, the RBS and the UE being able to send and receive data blocks, which may comprise sequence numbers, to and from each other, the RBS and the UE also exchanging reports comprising information on whether or not data blocks have been received successfully, so that both the UE and the RBS can be either the reporting party or the report receiving party, the method comprising the steps of: letting the reporting party send a transmission comprising a report to the report receiving party, said report comprising information on whether or not data blocks have been received successfully; letting the reporting party send said report together with data to the report receiving party or to another party in the cell; letting the reporting party attach addresses for the recipient of the data blocks and for the report in the transmission; letting the reporting party decide the contents of the report using at least one of the following priority rules which have been given an internal priority ranking: Data blocks which are identified as having a lower delay tolerance than other data blocks are given priority; Data blocks which have been detected as received in error, and whose status has not been reported since the error was detected are given priority; and, Data blocks are given priority according to their sequence numbers, with lower sequence numbers having priority over data blocks with higher sequence numbers.