Patent ID: 7885211

Claim:
A method for providing feedback information in a wireless network, comprising: receiving a configuration message indicating at least a first type of feedback information and a subset S 1 , wherein S 1 is a subset of S 0 , wherein the set S 0 comprises all possible values of the first type of feedback information and wherein each element in the set S 1 is identifiable by an index; selecting an element E 1 from the set S 1 ; and feeding back the selected element E 1 in a feedback transmission instance wherein feeding back the selected element E 1 comprises feeding back an index of the selected element E 1 in the set S 1 and wherein feeding back the index of the selected element E 1 in the set S 1 wherein feeding back the index of the selected element E 1 in the set S 1 further comprises feeding back the index of the selected element E 1 in the set S 1 using ceil(log 2 (N 1 )) bits, wherein N 1 is the number of elements in S 1 .