Patent ID: 9572059
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: by a wireless communication device: tuning away from a first network to a second network for a tune-away period, the first network implementing a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access technology (RAT); returning to the first network from the tune-away period; determining that a sending of a scheduled rank report to the first network was not performed by the wireless communication device during the tune-away period; generating at least one Channel State Indicator (CSI) report based on a previously defined Rank Indicator (RI) value known to the first network to allow the first network to interpret the at least one CSI report, wherein the generating is in response to the not performing of the sending of the scheduled rank report to the first network; and sending the at least one CSI report to the first network.