Patent ID: 7948936

Claim:
A method for scheduling transmissions of a mobile terminal in the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), the method comprising: receiving at the base station from a radio network controller Quality of Service (QoS) attributes of a plurality of MAC-d flows to be multiplexed on a MAC-e flow onto a single enhanced dedicated uplink channel (E-DCH) by the mobile terminal, receiving a scheduling request from the mobile terminal at the base station, wherein the scheduling request (i) comprises an identifier identifying one MAC-d flow of the plurality of MAC-d flows and (ii) requests allocation of an uplink resource to the mobile terminal for transmitting data of said plurality of MAC-d flows to be multiplexed onto the dedicated uplink channel, determining at the base station, based on the identifier within the scheduling request received from the mobile terminal and the QoS attributes received from the radio network controller, the QoS attributes associated with the one MAC-d flow identified by the identifier within the scheduling request by associating the identifier with the QoS attributes of the plurality of MAC-d flows received from the radio network controller, and scheduling by the base station the uplink resource for transmission of data of said plurality of MAC-d flows to be multiplexed onto the dedicated uplink channel by said mobile terminal, based on the identifier identifying said one MAC-d flow of said plurality of MAC-d flows and said QoS attributes that are determined by said determining operation and that are associated with the one MAC-d flow identified by the identifier within the scheduling request.