Patent ID: 8630210

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 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 a reporting party or a report receiving party, the method comprising the steps of: sending by the reporting party a transmission comprising a report to the report receiving party, said report comprising information on whether or not data blocks have been received successfully; sending by the reporting party said report together with data to the report receiving party or to another party; attaching by the reporting party addresses for a recipient of the data blocks and for the report in the transmission; deciding by the reporting party 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 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.