Patent ID: 9369904
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of reporting an uplink buffer status report message in a user equipment configured with a plurality of component carriers, the method comprising: obtaining an amount of data to be transmitted after respective media access layer protocol data units corresponding to the respective component carriers are generated; generating the uplink buffer status report message according to the amount of data to be transmitted; and reporting, by encapsulating only one regular or periodic buffer status report message in one transport time interval, the uplink buffer status report message to a base station serving the user equipment; wherein the generating further comprises: generating a regular or periodic uplink buffer status report message and a padding uplink buffer status report message respectively according to the amount of data to be transmitted, wherein the regular or periodic uplink buffer status report message is used to represent a first value range in which the amount of data to be transmitted is located, and the padding uplink buffer status report message is used to represent a second value range in which a difference between the amount of data to be transmitted and a lower limit of the first value range is located.