Patent ID: 8874114

Claim:
A mobile communications system comprising: a mobile station; and a plurality of base stations, at least two of the plurality of base stations operating according to different communication schemes and each of the plurality of base stations being configured to report resource-related information to the mobile station, said mobile station being configured to communicate simultaneously with said plurality of base stations and to recognize the communication scheme that each of the plurality of base stations operate according to based on the resource-related information received from each of the plurality of base stations, and said mobile station managing resources of said plurality of base stations by first sending a different resource specifying signal simultaneously to each of the plurality of base stations so that each base station simultaneously receives only the resource specifying signal pertinent to that receiving base station, the different resource specifying signals being based on the recognized communications schemes and the resource-related information transmitted from each of the plurality of base stations, wherein the mobile station is configured to then control communications simultaneously to and simultaneously from the plurality of base stations using the resources of the plurality of base stations as specified by the different resource specifying signals.