Patent ID: 8315658

Claim:
A method of receiving data at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving first scheduling information from a network and receiving an initial packet from the network based on the first scheduling information; transmitting NACK to the network if the user equipment fails to decode the initial packet successfully; receiving second scheduling information from the network and receiving a retransmission packet from the network based on the second scheduling information; and combining the retransmission packet with the initial packet to recover a packet associated with the initial packet and the retransmission packet, wherein each of the first scheduling information and the second scheduling information comprising either a radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) to indicate that the scheduling information is associated with a dynamic scheduling mode or a Semi-Persistent Scheduling RNTI (SPS-C-RNTI) to indicate that the scheduling information is associated with a semi-persistent scheduling mode.