Patent ID: 8280424

Claim:
A radio network controller comprising a component configured to provide a network element of a communications network via an interface in accordance with an interface application protocol with control parameters by inserting said control parameters into a control message associated with a high-speed downlink shared channel of said communications network and transmitted from said radio network controller of said communications network to said network element over said interface, said control message is one of a RADIO LINK SETUP REQUEST message and a RADIO LINK RECONFIGURATION PREPARE message, said control parameters comprising: an identity of an high speed downlink shared channel currently to be used by said network element for high speed downlink packet access; an allocation and/or retention priority indicating a priority level in the allocation and/or retention of internal resources of said network element; a frame handling priority indicating a priority level to be used by said network element during the lifetime of a high speed downlink shared channel for temporary restrictions of allocated resources; and a parameter to be used by said network element to configure hybrid automatic repeat request implemented in said network element.