Patent ID: 8238276

Claim:
A method of transmitting a downlink, coding scheme CS- 1 Radio Link Control/Media Access Control (RLC/MAC) control message to an Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (EGPRS) mobile station, said control message including an RLC/MAC control block having header content and message content, said method comprising the steps of: transmitting the control block header content of the downlink CS- 1 RLC/MAC control message in an RLC data header of an MCS- 1 radio block; transmitting the RLC/MAC control block message content of the downlink CS- 1 RLC/MAC control message in an RLC data part of the MCS- 1 block; and utilizing a coding and puncturing scheme (CPS) field of the MCS- 1 RLC data header to signal to a layer 2 entity in the EGPRS mobile station that the MCS- 1 radio block contains a CS- 1 RLC/MAC control block.