Patent ID: 8649735

Claim:
A method of estimating and reporting, for a receiver associated with a plurality of antennas, a channel quality measure of a wireless communication channel from a transmitter to the receiver, the method comprising: selecting a first and second antenna configuration from a set of mutually different antenna configurations associated with the receiver, wherein an antenna configuration in the set of mutually different antenna configurations comprises at least two of the plurality of antennas allocated to at least two frequency bands, determining a respective first and second channel quality measure for the selected first and second antenna configuration, determining if the first and second channel quality measures fulfill a minimum quality value, and if both the first and second channel quality measures fulfill the minimum quality value, determining a respective number of antennas comprised in the first and in the second antenna configuration, and reporting the first or second channel quality measure for the first or second antenna configuration having the smallest determined respective number of antennas allocated to any frequency band.