Patent ID: 7089015

Claim:
A method for reporting a quality of a transmission channel between a transmitter and a receiver, comprising: transmitting frames of data from said transmitter over said transmission channel to said receiver; sending back from said receiver to said transmitter a non-acknowledgement information when a frame of data received by said receiver is detected as erroneous; sending from said receiver to said transmitter, at scheduled reporting times, an information representative of the quality of the transmission channel at said reporting times; sending in a same subframe the non-acknowledgement information from said receiver back to said transmitter together with information representative of the quality of the transmission channel at a time the non-acknowledgement information is sent, said time being different than said reporting times; and sending said information representative of the quality of the transmission channel together with said non-acknowledgement information when the quality of the transmission channel has deteriorated by at least a predetermined amount over a last reported quality of the transmission channel.