Patent ID: 9564978
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a base station comprising a scheduler for obtaining channel state feedback from a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: generating a first uplink grant comprising a first trigger associated with a first channel quality indication (CQI) report; sending the first uplink grant to the UE; generating a second uplink grant comprising a second trigger associated with a second CQI report; sending the second uplink grant to the UE; receiving from the UE the first CQI report based on the first trigger and the second CQI report based on the second trigger, wherein the first CQI report comprises a first amount of CQI and the second CQI report comprises a second amount of CQI, wherein the first amount of CQI is different than the second amount of CQI.