Patent ID: 8271844

Claim:
A user equipment comprising: a medium access control-high speed (MAC-hs) comprising: a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) device configured to receive data blocks over a wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) and to generate an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) for each said data block received, each received data block having a transmission sequence number (TSN) assigned and processed by a scheduling entity prior to H-ARQ processing; the H-ARQ device configured to receive a new transmission instead of a pending retransmission at any time; and at least one reordering device having an input configured to receive an output of the H-ARQ device and the at least one reordering device configured to reorder the received data blocks based on each received data block's transmission sequence number (TSN) ensuring that higher priority transmissions are not delayed and to immediately forward received data blocks for processing for higher layers when the received data blocks are received in sequence.