Patent ID: 8271843

Claim:
A method of improving Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, abbreviated to HARQ, operation for a user equipment, called UE hereinafter, operating in HS-SCCH less operation in a wireless communications system, the method comprising: receiving a retransmission data in an HARQ procedure; determining a decoding result of data stored in a first soft buffer; combining the retransmission data with the data stored in the first soft buffer for generating a combined data when the UE determines that the data stored in the first soft buffer has not been successfully decoded; and performing a decoding process on the combined data and a store process corresponding to a second soft buffer; wherein the first soft buffer is obtained by a first rule that is based on a connection frame number and a subframe number, and the second soft buffer is obtained by a second rule that is based on the connection frame number and the subframe number.