Patent ID: 8447338

Claim:
A method of managing reception of data units transmitted from a radio communication network to a plurality of user equipments via a plurality of common upper level channels that are mapped to a same common lower level channel, the method preformed by a user equipment and comprising: receiving, by the user equipment, a list of information related to each of the plurality of common upper level channels in a determined order, the information not including any common upper level channel identifier; setting, by the user equipment, a common upper level channel identifier for each of the plurality of common upper level channels according to the received list of information; receiving, by the user equipment, a data unit from the radio communication network via the common lower level channel, wherein a common upper level channel identifier is associated with the data unit; and comparing, by the user equipment, the common upper level channel identifier associated with the data unit to at least one previously set common upper level channel identifier in order to identify the common upper level channel of the plurality of common upper level channels that carries the data unit.