Patent ID: 8184579

Claim:
A method for providing feedback information in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving an indication to repeat a type of feedback information; receiving an allocation of resource S 1 in uplink for use to repeat the feedback information; receiving an indication of a number N, wherein the transmission of the feedback information comprises N transmission instances; receiving an allocation of resources for a downlink shared data channel through a downlink control channel; receiving a block of data on the allocated downlink shared data channel; decoding the received data; generating either a positive acknowledgement when the received data is decoded correctly or a negative acknowledgement when the data is decoded incorrectly as the feedback information; deriving an uplink resource S 2 for transmission of the feedback information using the downlink control channel information; transmitting the feedback information once using the uplink resource S 2 ; and transmitting the feedback information N−1 times using the uplink resource S 1 .