Patent ID: 8462657

Claim:
A user equipment (UE), comprising: a processor configured to: control a receiver in the UE to have one or more periodic on-durations, the one or more periodic on-durations each associated with a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE; receive a resource configuration, the resource configuration indicating periodic channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting resources; determine that data was not received properly; determine a time period for one or more potential retransmissions of the data that was not received properly, the time period occurring after the start of one of the on-durations of the DRX operation mode of the UE; begin CQI transmissions using the periodic CQI reporting resource at a CQI reporting interval that occurs before the start of the one of the on-durations; and end CQI transmissions at a CQI reporting interval that occurs at an end of the time period for potential retransmissions.