Patent ID: 7317700

Claim:
A method by which, for a cell in which user equipment devices access a radio network via a Node B under the supervision of a controlling radio network controller, resources are reserved for providing high speed downlink packet access via a high speed downlink shared channel and one or more corresponding physical channels into which the high speed downlink shared channel is mapped, the method comprising: the controlling radio network controller for the Node B serving the cell sending to the Node B a message conveying cell-specific high speed downlink packet access information indicating resources requested by the controlling radio network controller including codes for the high speed downlink shared channel and for an associated high speed shared control channel and also indicating a maximum allowed value for the combined power of the high speed shared control channel and each of the corresponding physical channels into which the high speed downlink shared channel is mapped; and the Node B communicating to the controlling radio network controller a cell-specific high speed downlink packet access resource response conveying information indicating whether any of the requested resources have been successfully reserved by the Node B in response to the message conveying cell-specific high speed downlink packet access information.