Patent ID: 8724564

Claim:
A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving one or more downlink component carriers among N downlink component carriers created by dividing a multi-carrier by an integer N; and transmitting control information about the received one or more downlink component carriers in one or more uplink component carriers among N uplink component carriers created by dividing a multi-carrier by the integer N, wherein the control information about the received one or more downlink component carriers is distributed equally or unequally to the one or more uplink component carriers and the control information includes at least one of a Channel Quality Information/Precoding Matrix Index (CQI/PMI), an ACKnowledgment/Negative ACKnowledgment (ACK/NACK), and a Rank Indication (RI), and wherein the control information about each of the received one or more downlink component carriers is separately encoded, concatenated, and distributed equally or unequally to the one or more uplink component carriers.