Patent ID: 8228947

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a first network component in a radio access network during a state transition, a protocol data unit, the protocol data unit having a format, the protocol data unit arranged for communication between the first network component and a different second network component in the radio access network, wherein the first network component is configured for the state transition from a first state to a different second state, and wherein the format of the protocol data unit received by the first network component during the state transition is the same format of the protocol data unit communicated between the first network component and the second network component when the first network component is in the first state; and enabling high-speed downlink shared channel hybrid automatic repeat request soft combining during the state transition, wherein one of the first state and the second state comprises a dedicated channel state, and the other of the first state and the second state comprises one of a forward access channel state and a paging channel state.