Patent ID: 8477743

Claim:
A method for operating a mobile station in communication with a network, comprising: receiving an assignment of first timeslots for uplink communications; receiving an instruction to enter a dynamic timeslot reduction (DTR) mode, the DTR mode causing the mobile station to reduce monitoring to a set of timeslots, the set of timeslots having a number of timeslots less than a number of timeslots to be monitored in accordance with the assignment; while the mobile station is in DTR mode and monitoring the set of timeslots, receiving a data block within a radio block; and when the mobile station does not successfully decode the data block and when the mobile station does not successfully decode from the radio block an indication to continue to monitor the set of timeslots: continuing to operate the mobile station in the DTR mode, and continuing to monitor the set of timeslots having a number of timeslots less than a number of timeslots to be monitored in accordance with the assignment.