Apparatus and method for transmitting data packets

Abstract

A communications apparatus having a transmission device, such as a mobile terminal (UE), and a reception device, such as a network control device (RNC), which are linked to one another via channels in a mobile communications network, for transmitting data packets between the transmission device and the reception device which comprise a control data part and a user data part, in which the transmission device has a splitting device for splitting a data packet which is to be transmitted, before transmission, into the control data part and the user data part over various channels of a transmission device which has a channel for the control data part and a channel for the user data part, and the reception device is designed to assemble the control data part and the user data part of the data packet, and also to a method which can be carried out using said communications apparatus.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.