Patent ID: 7733846

Claim:
A method of transmitting control signals in a communication network, comprising: transmitting only control signal data related to scheduling for uplink transmission of packet data over a single control channel, the single control channel having physical structure and data arrangement therein corresponding to the control signal data transmitted on the single control channel, the physical structure of the control channel and the data arrangement in the control channel being selected based on a user transmission mode, the transmitting of the control signal data includes one of, transmitting one or more of medium access control buffer status data, transport format data, transport block size data and redundancy data, if the transmission mode is a scheduled transmission mode, transmitting one or more of, transport format data, transport block size data, HARQ channel ID data and an indicator indicating whether data carried on a corresponding data channel is a new packet or a re-transmission of a previous packet, if the transmission mode is a rate-controlled transmission mode, and transmitting one or more of medium access control (MAC) buffer status data, pilot transmit power data and data related to priority of a packet in the MAC buffer, if a user is configured in a reporting mode.