Patent ID: 8059597

Claim:
A method of transmitting buffer status reports at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a first medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) which comprises a first buffer status report to a base station, the first buffer status report indicating buffer status of the user equipment (UE); checking by the user equipment (UE) whether to receive allocation information indicating uplink channel resources allocation for transmission of uplink data from the base station until a pre-defined period elapses after transmitting the first buffer status report; triggering a procedure for a second buffer status report if the user equipment (UE) fails to receive the allocation information until the pre-defined period elapses after transmitting the first buffer status report; checking whether the user equipment (UE) has allocated uplink channel resources for transmission of the second buffer status report after the procedure for the second buffer status report is triggered; transmitting a second MAC PDU which comprises the second buffer status report on the allocated uplink channel resources if the user equipment (UE) has the allocated uplink channel resources; and transmitting a scheduling request (SR) which comprises 1 bit information to request allocation of uplink channel resources for the transmission of the second buffer status report to the base station if the user equipment (UE) does not have the allocated uplink channel resources, wherein each of the first buffer status report and the second buffer status report is either a short buffer status report or a long buffer status report, wherein the short buffer status report comprises one buffer size field for indicating an amount of data of one logical channel group, and the long buffer status report comprises four buffer size fields for indicating an amount of data of four logical channel groups, wherein a logical channel group includes maximum four logical channels, and wherein each header of the first and second MAC PDUs comprises an identifier which indicates whether each of the first buffer status report and the second buffer status report is either the short buffer status report or the long buffer status report.