Patent ID: 8259651

Claim:
A method for reporting channel information based on periodic reporting instances by a mobile station in a communication system, the method comprising: scheduling to periodically transmit one of wideband (WB) channel quality information (CQI) and frequency-selective (FS) CQI every P sub-frames, wherein WB CQI transmission instances recur every L*P sub-frames and FS CQI is transmitted during reporting instances between two consecutive WB CQI transmission instances; scheduling to periodically transmit rank information (RI) every K*(L*P) sub-frames; and in response to a collision between a scheduled RI transmission instance and one of a scheduled WB CQI transmission instance and a scheduled FS CQI transmission instance, dropping transmission of the one of the scheduled WB CQI transmission instance and the scheduled FS CQI transmission instance.