Patent ID: 7948941

Claim:
A method for allocating communication resources to transmit data to multiple user Mobile Stations (MSs) in a wireless communication system, comprising: allocating a dedicated channel to a particular user MS; determining whether data to be transmitted to the particular user MS is present; temporarily allocating resources of the dedicated channel for resources of a shared channel for a first interval when the data to be transmitted to the particular user MS is not present for the first interval; and transmitting data to the particular user MS on the dedicated channel without allocating resources of the dedicated channel when data to be transmitted to the particular user MS is present after the first interval; determining whether the data is an initial transmission packet, when the data to be transmitted to the particular user MS is present; and transmitting the data on the dedicated channel at a start point of a frame boundary for the particular user MS when the data to be transmitted is determined to be the initial transmission packet, wherein the wireless communication system supports a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ).