Patent ID: 8588157

Claim:
A method in a radio base station for activating a radio resource reconfiguration in a User Equipment (UE) and in the radio base station, wherein the UE being subject to the reconfiguration is identifiable by a first UE identity, and wherein the method comprises: sending a reconfiguration message indicating a new configuration to be used by said UE, wherein the reconfiguration message comprises a second UE identity for said UE and the second UE identity is associated with said new configuration; activating the new configuration; receiving an indication that the UE is identifiable by the second UE identity; and determining that the UE is ready to start transmission or reception with the new configuration when the indication that the UE is identifiable by the second UE identity is received; wherein the first UE identity is a first Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI); wherein the second UE identity is a second RNTI; and wherein the receiving an indication comprises: sending a scheduling command to the UE by using at least the second UE identity after a predetermined time period has elapsed after receiving an acknowledgement to the reconfiguration message at the radio base station from the UE; and receiving a response to the scheduling command with the second UE identity.