Patent ID: 8498212

Claim:
A method of operating user equipment (UE) configured to participate in communication sessions within a wireless communications system operating in accordance with a given wireless communication protocol, comprising: receiving, from an access network, a periodically broadcasted message requesting the UE, whenever the UE determines to perform a given type of transmission, (i) to measure a reverse-link channel upon which the given type of transmission is to be performed, and (ii) to include results of the measurement within the given type of transmission; determining to transmit data associated with a communication session of a given type to the access network, wherein the data to be transmitted to the access network corresponds to the given type of transmission; refraining from measuring the reverse-link channel based on the data being associated with the communication session of the given type; and transmitting the data associated with the communication session of the given type to the access network, wherein the given type of transmission is associated with call set-up of the communication session for the UE.