Patent ID: 9100145
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to report link quality measurements for downlink dual carrier operation, the method comprising: dependent on at least in part a length of an information element to contain link quality measurements for a secondary carrier being less than or equal to a first limit, causing a processor of a mobile station to use a first value in a first range of numeric values greater than a second limit to represent the length of the information element; dependent on at least in part the length of the information element to contain the link quality measurements for the secondary carrier being greater than the first limit, causing the processor of the mobile station to use a second value in a second range of numeric values less than or equal to the second limit to represent the length of the information element; and setting, with the processor of the mobile station, a length field of a message containing the information element to the first value or the second value to signal the length of the information element.