Patent ID: 8923173

Claim:
A user equipment (UE) comprising: circuitry to provide a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer to receive control data, the control data to indicate: one or more allowed combinations of dedicated channel medium access control (MAC-d) flows to be multiplexed into enhanced uplink medium access control (MAC-e) protocol data units (PDUs), the MAC-d flows to carry data mapped to an enhanced uplink dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport channel (TrCH) for transmission to a Node-B, and supported transport format combinations (TFCs) for the E-DCH TrCH, including a minimum set of TFCs that are supported, comprising a transport block for one MAC-d flow and no data for all other MAC-d flows mapped to the E-DCH TrCH; a MAC-d entity to output the MAC-d flows; a MAC-e entity to receive the MAC-d flows from the MAC-d entity, to multiplex the MAC-d flows onto the MAC-e PDUs in accordance with the received control data, and to output the MAC-e PDUs via the E-DCH TrCH; and a physical layer to receive the MAC-e PDUs via the E-DCH TrCH, and to process the MAC-e PDUs for transmission to the Node-B via one or more physical channels.