Patent ID: 7957360

Claim:
A method of discontinuous reception (DRX) signaling in a long-term evolution infrastructure between an evolved node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE), the method comprising the steps of: providing a DRX value in a header of a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC-PDU); acknowledging the MAC-PDU; and reconfiguring the DRX based on the provided DRX value after a period of delay; wherein the period of delay is limited by a first threshold, said first threshold being configured to handle possible negative acknowledgment (NACK) to acknowledgement (ACK) misinterpretations and wherein the period of delay is limited by: a second threshold, the second threshold being set for the UE to wait for a retransmission due to possible ACK to NACK or discontinuous transmit misinterpretation; and a third threshold, the third threshold being set to allow the UE to check the layer 1/layer 2 (L1/L2) signaling channel for a high speed shared control channel indication that data is transmitted on high speed physical downlink shared channel wherein the period is set to greater than the maximum of the first threshold and the second threshold, added to the third threshold.