Patent ID: 8605659

Claim:
A method for detecting an overlap of an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) uplink transmission and an assigned uplink compressed mode transmission gap, the method comprising: identifying a subframe of a system frame for the E-DCH transmission; determining whether the system frame of the identified subframe for the E-DCH transmission is a compressed frame using an uplink compressed frame gap description map; upon condition that the identified system frame is a compressed frame, determining whether there is an overlap including: identifying a first subframe time slot and a last subframe time slot of the subframe identified for the E-DCH transmission; and determining whether the last subframe time slot of the subframe is before a first timeslot of the assigned uplink compressed mode transmission gap or that the first subframe time slot of the subframe is after a last timeslot of the assigned uplink compressed mode transmission gap to thereby indicate an absence of an overlap.