Patent ID: 8243676

Claim:
A method of selecting an enhanced uplink (EU) transport format combination (E-TFC), the method comprising: determining a maximum number of bits of scheduled data for an upcoming transmission calculated from K e,ref , wherein the highest value is lower or equal to: K e , ref · SG L e , ref · A ed , ref 2 · 10 Δ ⁢ ⁢ harq / 10 ⁢ , where SG is a serving grant, L e,ref is the number of EU dedicated physical data channels (E-DPDCHs) used for a selected reference E-TFC, K e,ref is the number of data bits of the reference E-TFC, Δ harq is a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) offset for a specific data flow to be transmitted as signaled by higher layers, and Δ ed,ref is a ratio derived from a parameter ΔE-DPDCH signaled by higher layers for the selected reference E-TFC.