Patent ID: 8477740

Claim:
A method for a mobile station, comprising: receiving an assignment of a first set of timeslots for at least one of uplink or downlink communications; after receiving the assignment of the first set of timeslots, reducing a number of timeslots monitored by the mobile station to a reduced set of timeslots having a number of timeslots less than a number of timeslots to be monitored in accordance with the assignment; receiving a second assignment of a second set of timeslots for at least one of uplink or downlink communications; if the second assignment assigns a number of timeslots that is less than the number of timeslots in the first set of timeslots, continuing to monitor the reduced set of timeslots; and if the second assignment assigns a number of timeslots that is greater than the number of timeslots in the first set of timeslots, monitoring a set of timeslots in accordance with the second assignment.