Patent ID: 8645785

Claim:
A telecommunication station for telecommunication with a user equipment using parallel hybrid automatic repeat request processes, the telecommunication station comprising: a scheduler for signaling to said user equipment allocations of resources and parameters for transmission and re-transmission of data blocks; and a set of reception buffers for receiving and re-ordering said data blocks from said user equipment, wherein said scheduler assigns a reception index to each data block of said data blocks to be transmitted by said user equipment, and wherein said scheduler assigns reception buffers from said set of reception buffers to received data blocks as a function of the assigned reception indexes identifying time slots scheduled for reception, wherein said scheduler detects and schedules re-transmission of missing Radio Link Control Packet Data Units within said data blocks after said hybrid automatic repeat request processes, said scheduler also scheduling said re-transmission of missing Radio Link Control Packet Data Units as segments in respective re-transmitted data blocks, said segments being assigned on reception to a buffer corresponding to a same reception index as the scheduled reception of the data block scheduled to contain that missing Radio Link Control Packet Data Unit, so that a data block newly transmitted by said user equipment and received in its scheduled time slot is assigned to a reception buffer corresponding to a new reception index, and a data block re-transmitted by said user equipment and received in a time slot later than its originally scheduled time slot is assigned to a reception buffer corresponding to the same reception index as its originally scheduled reception.