Patent ID: 9276700
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to report link quality measurements for downlink dual carrier operation, the method comprising: determining, by a mobile station, a number of per slot link quality measurements that can be included in a reporting message; determining, by a mobile station independent of an associated network node, whether all valid per slot link quality measurements can be included in the reporting message based on the determined number of per slot link quality measurements; in response to determining that all of the valid per slot link quality measurements cannot be included in the reporting message, including, by the mobile station, in the reporting message a subset of a set of link quality measurements corresponding to (i) the valid per slot link quality measurements and (ii) average link quality measurements over multiple slots, the subset of the set of link quality measurements being included in the reporting message in accordance with a prioritization scheme; and transmitting, using a transmitter, the reporting message to the associated network node.