Patent ID: 7471942

Claim:
A method, with a wireless communication system, for wirelessly transmitting at least one of a downlink channel descriptor and an uplink channel descriptor for reception by at least one wireless device, the method comprising: selecting at least one transmission time for transmitting, for reception by at least one wireless device, at least one of: a pointer indicating a transmission time for at least one of a downlink channel descriptor and an uplink channel descriptor, wherein the pointer is transmitted at a time, between a first transmission and a second transmission of the at least one of downlink channel descriptor and uplink channel descriptor, selected to reduce a time interval for the at least one wireless device to search for the at least one of the downlink channel descriptor and uplink channel descriptor; and a message including downlink channel descriptor information and uplink channel descriptor information associated with at least one neighboring cell, wherein the message is transmitted during the time between the first transmission and the second transmission of the at least one of downlink channel descriptor and uplink channel descriptor.