Patent ID: 9312995
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for adaptive coordinated multipoint (CoMP) mode selection in a wireless communications system, the method comprising: establishing a feedback channel; receiving unified feedback information from a user equipment (UE) over the feedback channel, the unified feedback information being communicated in accordance with a uniform feedback format mandating that the unified feedback information includes dynamic point selection channel state information (CSI), joint transmission CSI, and channel quality information; selecting a transmission scheme in accordance with the unified feedback information; sending a downlink transmission to the UE in accordance with the selected transmission scheme; and receiving additional unified feedback information from the UE in accordance with the uniform feedback format, wherein the uniform feedback format mandates that the additional unified feedback information includes each of the dynamic point selection CSI, the joint transmission CSI, and the channel quality information irrespective of which transmission scheme is used to perform the downlink transmission.