Patent ID: 7436857

Claim:
A method of mapping information, in a wireless communications system, between logical channels for communications services and physical channels of the wireless communications system, the physical channels including at least one shared channel for communications with each of a plurality of terminals in a time division multiplexed (TDM) manner, and dedicated channels each assigned to a respective terminal for a relatively long period, the method comprising the steps of: for information of the logical channels relating to the dedicated channels, mapping the information between the logical channels and the respective dedicated channels in a first multiplexing sublayer of a medium access control (MAC) function; and for information of the logical channels relating to the shared channels, mapping the information between the logical channels and a shared transport channel in said first multiplexing sublayer of the MAC function, and mapping the information between the shared transport channel and the shared physical channel only in a second multiplexing sublayer of the MAC function.