Patent ID: 8412215

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; receiving a downlink message using the channel set, 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; and communicating data on the scheduled resource in response to the downlink message; and wherein the method further comprises transmitting a further identifier to the network equipment and receiving a message from the network equipment conveying the further identifier 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.