Patent ID: 8374144

Claim:
A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive a downlink signal, the method comprising: receiving a first downlink control channel identified by a temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI) from a base station, the first downlink control channel comprising a first downlink assignment signal having a new data indicator (NDI) with a first value; receiving a second downlink control channel identified by a cell identifier (C-RNTI) from the base station, the second downlink control channel comprising a second downlink assignment signal having the NDI with a second value; determining if the NDI has been toggled compared to the NDI previously received from the base station, wherein the UE ignores the NDI with the first value received through the first downlink control channel identified by the temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI); receiving the downlink signal; and processing the received downlink signal based on the determining.