Patent ID: 7974623

Claim:
An integrated circuit that controls communication between a user equipment and a base station, the integrated circuit comprising: a transmission commander configured to command transmission by the user equipment of a random access signal through a random access channel, said random access signal using a first spreading code randomly selected from a plurality of spreading codes, and a reception commander configured to command reception by the user equipment of an access permission signal, wherein: said transmission commander is configured to command transmission, by the user equipment, of data to the base station through an uplink data channel in the event that the access permission signal is received by the user equipment before a response time period elapses; and said transmission commander is configured to command retransmission, by the user equipment, of the random access signal through the random access channel without setting a back-off time after the response time period, in the event that the access permission signal is not received by the user equipment before the response time period elapses, said retransmitted random access signal using a second spreading code randomly selected from a plurality of spreading codes.