Patent ID: 8897238

Claim:
A method of reporting an amount of information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: reporting, by a user equipment, a first part of a buffer status report (BSR) indicating that the amount of information is larger than a specific value, wherein the information is a buffer size of the user equipment included in the BSR and the first part is reported when the buffer size exceeds the specific value; and reporting, by the user equipment, a second part of the BSR indicating the amount of the information, wherein: the first part and the second part are included in a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU); the BSR includes a short BSR and a long BSR; the first part and the second part are included in both the short BSR and the long BSR; the amount of the information indicated by the second part is an excess buffer size with respect to the specific value; and a location of the second part within the MAC PDU is determined by a type of the BSR.