Patent ID: 8111638

Claim:
A method of supporting a radio measurement procedure for station statistics measurements in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: transmitting to a requested station a triggered station statistics measurements request message including a group identity field and a triggered reporting field, the group identity field indicating a requested statistics group, the triggered reporting field comprising a trigger condition field and a plurality of threshold fields, the trigger condition field specifying trigger conditions; and receiving from the requested station a station statistics measurements report message when at least one trigger condition in the trigger condition field is met, wherein the group identity field is set to a predetermined value indicating one of two groups of station counters, wherein the trigger condition field comprises a failed count bit subfield, a Frame Check Sequence (FCS) error count bit subfield, a multiple retry count bit subfield, a frame duplicate count bit subfield, a Request To Send (RTS) failure count bit subfield, an ACK failure count bit subfield and a retry count bit subfield, wherein the multiple retry count bit subfield, the frame duplicate count bit subfield, the RTS failure count bit subfield, the ACK failure count bit subfield and the retry count bit subfield are set to 0 if the group identity field is set to a value indicating station counters from a counters table, and wherein the failed count bit subfield and the FCS error count bit subfield are set to 0 if the group identity field is set to a value indicating station counters from a Media Access Control (MAC) statistics group.