Patent ID: 8134933

Claim:
A method for use in a wireless communications system in which there is at least a first transceiver and a second transceiver that communicate using Time Division Duplex (TDD), wherein said TDD communication is divided into time frames each of which in turn can comprise a number of time slots, and wherein the first transceiver transmits a dedicated signal or channel for use as a communications quality indicator by the second transceiver, and the second transceiver reports measurements of the dedicated signal or channel to the first transceiver, the dedicated signal or channel being transmitted by the first transceiver in more than one TDD time slots, and said method comprising: measuring at the second transceiver the individual signal strength of the dedicated signal or channel in at least a first and a second time slots of one and the same TDD frame and transmitting measurement reports from the second transceiver to the first transceiver based on the individual measurements in said first and second time slots of the dedicated signal or channel; and receiving information from the first transceiver at the second transceiver, informing the second transceiver which future time slots are going to be used for the dedicated signal or channel.