Patent ID: 8559946

Claim:
A method that facilitates signaling discontinuous transmission (DTX) to a base station in a wireless communication environment, comprising: determining whether a downlink control channel has been successfully decoded; encoding an uplink control channel subframe, the uplink control channel subframe including a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information and at least one indicator that distinguishes between successful decoding of a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel, failed decoding of the downlink control channel, and failed decoding of the downlink data channel; adding a transmission state bit to a set of bits that represent the CQI information, the transmission state bit providing a toggle indication between linearly adding or not adding a particular Reed-Muller (RM) basis vector based upon one of DTX operation or non-DTX operation; setting a value for the transmission state bit to signal one of DTX operation or non-DTX operation; encoding the transmission state bit and the bits representing the CQI information jointly upon non-reference signal symbols in a slot; and transmitting the encoded uplink control channel subframe to a base station.