Patent ID: 9462604
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of reporting transmission backlog information, the method comprising operating a mobile wireless communications device to perform the steps of: maintaining backlog information corresponding to a plurality of different groups; and selecting a group from the plurality of different groups for which backlog information is maintained, wherein said selecting is performed as a function of a change in backlog with respect to previously reported backlog information after taking into consideration changes in backlog due to base station allocation of transmission resources, wherein the selected group corresponds to one of a plurality of supported reporting alternatives of an n-bit size request report format, different reporting alternatives corresponding to different groups, wherein each n-bit sized request report format comprises a table lookup for an uplink traffic channel request for up to m priority request groups and further comprises reports, each report comprising an uplink power backoff report (ULTxBKF), a downlink signal to noise ratio report (DLSNR), a downlink beacon ratio report (DLBNR), and up to four flexible reports; and generating a n-bit size request report in accordance with the n-bit size request report format and said reporting alternative corresponding to the selected group.