Patent ID: 8724742

Claim:
A wireless communication device supporting multiple carriers, the multiple carriers comprising at least two component carriers, each component carrier is associated with a configured bandwidth, the apparatus comprising: a receiver; a memory element; and a processor coupled to the receiver and to the memory element, the processor configured to determine a size of a soft buffer memory partition of the memory element for a first component carrier based on a first configured bandwidth of the first component carrier and a second configured bandwidth of a second component carrier, and the processor configured to control the receiver to receive data on the first component carrier based on the size of the soft buffer memory partition; wherein the processor is configured to determine the size of the soft buffer memory partition based on a total number of soft channel bits; and wherein the total number of soft channel bits is determined based on any one of the following: a category of the wireless communication device; a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes determined based at least in part on duplex mode; or a maximum number of transport blocks transmittable to the wireless communication device in one transmission time interval.