Patent ID: 8045583

Claim:
A method for communicating condition information at a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, in a lower entity of the mobile terminal, a measurement request message from a network, the measurement request message requesting the mobile terminal to perform a channel condition measurement, wherein the channel condition measurement comprises measuring an interference level; transmitting an indication message from the lower entity of the mobile terminal to an upper entity of the mobile terminal, the indication message indicating the received measurement request message requesting the mobile terminal to perform the channel condition measurement; receiving, in the lower entity of the mobile terminal, from the upper entity of the mobile terminal a request to perform the channel condition measurement; performing, at the lower entity of the mobile terminal, the channel condition measurement; transmitting, from the lower entity of the mobile terminal, to the upper entity of the mobile terminal a result of the channel condition measurement; receiving, in the lower entity of the mobile terminal, a measurement response from the upper entity of the mobile terminal requesting a transmission of a measurement response message; and transmitting, from the lower entity of the mobile terminal, the measurement response message to the network comprising information related to the channel condition measurement.