Patent ID: 8175050

Claim:
A method that facilitates coordinating notifications provided to an access terminal in a wireless communication environment, comprising: generating a discontinuous reception (DRX) indicator that indicates to the access terminal to transition to DRX mode; generating a resource release indicator that specifies release of one or more semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resources previously assigned to the access terminal; transmitting, by a base station, the DRX indicator and the resource release indicator to the access terminal within a single transaction, the single transaction occurring within a single transmission time interval (TTI), the transmitting comprising, sending a control channel transmission in a first portion of the single TTI, the control channel transmission carrying the resource release indicator and a data channel indicator that identifies the presence of a corresponding data channel transmission; and sending the corresponding data channel transmission identified by the data channel indicator during a second portion of the single TTI, the corresponding data channel transmission carrying the DRX indicator.