Patent ID: 9319176
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for encoding control information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: obtaining, by the UE, a plurality of channel quality indicators (CQIs) for a plurality of downlink component carriers, at least one rank indicator (Rl) and at least one acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), wherein a plurality of component carriers comprise the plurality of downlink component carriers and one or more uplink component carriers; concatenating, by the UE, the plurality of CQIs for the plurality of downlink component carriers; encoding, by the UE, the concatenated plurality of CQIs, the at least one RI and the at least one ACK/NACK, separately; and transmitting, by the UE, the encoded concatenated plurality of CQIs, the encoded at least one RI and the encoded at least one ACK/NACK on only one uplink component carrier among the one or more uplink component carriers.