Patent ID: 8213380

Claim:
A method for packet switched transmission of data packets containing useful information, comprising: transmitting at least a portion of the data packets from a base station associated with a first radio cell to a subscriber station; storing the data packets received from the base station associated with the first radio cell at the subscriber station in an intermediate storage unit; applying an ARQ method to said data packets and then forwarding said data packets to a subsequent link control layer for further processing; storing status information at the base station associated with the first radio cell, the status information relating to the content of the intermediate storage unit of the subscriber station; and when the subscriber station moves to a second radio cell, handing over the transmission of data packets from the first radio cell to the second radio cell, reinitializing the status information in the base station associated with the second radio cell, and forwarding the data packets in the intermediate storage unit of the subscriber station to a subsequent link control layer for further processing without further applying the ARQ method.