Patent ID: 7558229

Claim:
A method for controlling transmissions that overlap with a transmission gap in a wireless communications system, comprising: identifying a scheduled transmission gap, the scheduled transmission gap indicating a time period when a mobile unit is not required to communicate with a base station on at least one uplink channel; determining an actual transmission gap when the mobile unit does not communicate with the base station on said at least one uplink channel, the actual transmission gap being equal to the scheduled transmission gap minus at least one time interval used to transmit at least one of a transmission power control field, a transmit format control information field, or a pilot field; transmitting a short data frame scheduled for transmission on at least one downlink channel to the mobile unit during a time period that overlaps with the scheduled transmission gap and is outside the actual transmission gap; and discarding the short data frame scheduled for transmission on said at least one downlink channel during a time period that overlaps with the actual transmission gap.