Patent ID: 7869461

Claim:
A data transmission method for use in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: establishing radio bearers between a mobile terminal and a radio access network of the mobile communication system, receiving, at the mobile terminal, radio bearer mapping information from the radio access network, wherein the radio bearer mapping information comprises for each of the radio bearers: (1) a priority indicator for indicating a priority to be assigned to a logical channel to which the respective radio bearer is to be mapped and (2) a scheduling mode out of plural scheduling modes of the logical channel to which the respective radio bearer is to be mapped, mapping the radio bearers to logical channels at the mobile terminal taking into account the received radio bearer mapping information, wherein mapping the radio bearers to logical channels comprises assigning to a logical channel on which a respective radio bearer is mapped the priority and the scheduling mode indicated in the radio bearer mapping information, multiplexing data of the logical channels to a single transport channel, and transmitting by the mobile terminal the multiplexed data of the logical channels on the transport channel.