Patent ID: 8315242

Claim:
A method of handling timers during re-establishing a transmitting side of a wireless communications system having a communications device having an RLC (Radio Link Control) entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side, wherein when both the transmitting side and the receiving side in the RLC entity are being re-established, a first timer corresponding to the transmitting side is stopped and a second timer corresponding to the receiving side is stopped, the method comprising: re-establishing the transmitting side in the RLC entity and not re-establishing the receiving side in the RLC entity; stopping the first timer; not stopping the second timer when re-establishing the transmitting side in the RLC entity and not re-establishing the receiving side in the RLC entity; wherein the second timer is not a periodic timer; and wherein stopping the first timer corresponding to the transmitting side is stopping all timers corresponding to the transmitting side other than an SDU discard timer (Timer_Discard) and a periodic polling timer (Timer_Poll_Periodic).