Patent ID: 9578654
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a wireless terminal in a wireless communications system to communicate transmission backlog information, comprising: selecting a set of groups, from a plurality of sets of groups, to prepare a fixed size uplink report, wherein: a first number of possible uplink report values corresponds to a first one of said plurality of sets of groups, and a second number of possible uplink report values corresponds to a second one of said plurality of sets of groups; generating said fixed size uplink report, said generating including: mapping backlog information to one of the uplink report values corresponding to the selected set of groups, the selected set of groups being associated with a plurality of queues, and obtaining a bit pattern to be included in said fixed size uplink report, wherein a single value of the bit pattern in the generated fixed size uplink report indicates a backlog of traffic for the plurality of queues associated with the selected set of groups; and transmitting the generated fixed size uplink report.