Patent ID: 7768953

Claim:
A method for managing the transmission of data during discontinuous transmission (DTX) in a time division duplex (TDD) communication mode, the method comprising: receiving a transport format combination index (TFCI) for a coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) at a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU); determining whether the received TFCI is a special burst (SB); on a condition that the received TFCI is a SB, turning off receiver processing, and turning on the receiving processing at the start of a predetermined duration, the predetermined duration equal to a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs), wherein the predetermined duration is determined iteratively by initializing a timing value in response to the TFCI indicating a SB, incrementing the timing value by a duration of TTIs until a next TFCI indication of an SB is received, and storing the duration of TTIs as the predetermined duration; on a condition that the received TFCI is not a SB, processing data associated with the TFCI; and reading a next TFCI.