Method of handling an error on CS voice over HSPA

• US 8,401,037 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2009
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Sun Hee, Chun, Sung Duck, Yi, Seung June, Lee, Young Dae, Park, Sung Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Huy D
• Assistant Examiner(s): MIAN, OMER S
• Application Number:
  US12/350,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20090175173A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 370/353, 370/354, 370/355, 370/356, 370/473, 370/465
• US Class Current: 370/473
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/165 Variable formats
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1835 Buffer management

Abstract

A method of processing data at a specific protocol layer in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of receiving a first data block including sequence information from a lower layer, checking a status of a second data block contained in the first data block, the second data block being an upper layer data block having time information, and if the status of the second data block fails to correspond to a prescribed condition, discarding the first data block.

Claims

1. A method of processing data at a specific protocol layer in a wireless communication system using a circuit switched voice data process, the method comprising:

receiving a radio link control (RLC) protocol data unit (PDU) including a header from a lower layer, the header including sequence information and an extension bit (E-bit), wherein the E-bit identifies whether the RLC PDU includes a plurality of RLC service data units (SDUs);

extracting the E-bit from the header of the RLC PDU;

if the E-bit identifies that the RLC PDU includes only one RLC SDU, extracting the RLC SDU from the RLC PDU and delivering the extracted RLC SDU to an upper layer;

if the E-bit identifies that the RLC PDU includes a plurality of RLC SDUs, extracting one RLC SDU among the plurality of RLC SDUs from the RLC PDU, delivering the extracted one RLC SDU to an upper layer and discarding, at an RLC layer, the rest of RLC SDUs in the RLC PDU, wherein the extracted one RLC SDU is a first RLC SDU having timing information in the RLC PDU and

wherein the specific protocol layer is the RLC layer.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

delivering the sequence information included in the header of the RLC PDU to the upper layer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the RLC PDU is an unacknowledged mode (UM) RLC PDU.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the lower layer is a medium access control (MAC) layer.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the circuit switched voice data process is configured.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracted RLC SDU is a complete RLC SDU which is not segmented or concatenated.

7. An apparatus for processing data at a specific protocol layer in a wireless communication system using a circuit switched voice data process, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to control receiving a radio link control (RLC) protocol data unit (PDU) including a header from a lower layer, the header including sequence information and an extension bit (E-bit), wherein the E-bit identifies whether the RLC PDU includes a plurality of RLC service data units (SDUs),

extracting the E-bit from the header of the RLC PDU,

if the E-bit identifies that the RLC PDU includes only one RLC SDU, extracting the RLC SDU from the RLC PDU and delivering the extracted RLC SDU to an upper layer,

if the E-bit identifies that the RLC PDU includes a plurality of RLC SDUs, extracting one RLC SDU among the plurality of RLC SDUs from the RLC PDU, delivering the extracted one RLC SDU to an upper layer and discarding, at an RLC layer, the rest of RLC SDUs in the RLC PDU, wherein the extracted one RLC SDU is a first RLC SDU having timing information in the RLC PDU and

wherein the specific protocol layer is the RLC layer.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the circuit switched voice data process is configured.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the extracted RLC SDU is a complete RLC SDU which is not segmented or concatenated.