Patent ID: 8737333

Claim:
A method of power reporting for a mobile device configured with a plurality of uplink component carriers and/or parallel physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: being configured a maximum output power for at least a uplink component carrier; determining whether to start a maximum output power reporting for the at least a uplink component carrier according to a characteristic associated to the mobile device or a network of the wireless communication system; reporting the maximum output power for the at least a uplink component carrier to the network when the maximum output power reporting is triggered; determining whether to stop a maximum output power reporting for the at least an uplink component carrier according to a characteristic associated to the mobile device or a network of the wireless communication system, when the maximum output power reporting is started; and stopping reporting the maximum output power for the at least an uplink component carrier to the network, when it is determined to stop reporting.