Patent ID: 8756477

Claim:
An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: means for decoding a current downlink subframe included in a bundle that includes multiple downlink subframes; means for detecting a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) failure of the current downlink subframe during the decoding of the current downlink subframe, the CRC failure indicating an error in the current downlink subframe; means for inhibiting decoding of subsequent downlink subframes in the bundle when the CRC failure is detected, the subsequent downlink subframes being subsequent to the current downlink subframe and prior to an uplink subframe of the bundle; means for reporting a single CRC failure for the multiple downlink subframes via the uplink subframe; and means for decoding a retransmission of the bundle beginning at a downlink subframe that previously failed the CRC, the retransmitted bundle being received in response to reporting of the single CRC failure.