Patent ID: 8345605

Claim:
A method for providing bundled feedback in a wireless network wherein plural downlink (DL) subframes are associated with a single uplink (UL) subframe, comprising: receiving one or more downlink (DL) grants indicative of one or more corresponding DL packets, wherein each downlink (DL) grant comprises a downlink assignment indicator (DAI) indicative of a number of downlink (DL) grants in a current set of subframes; determining if at least one downlink (DL) grant was missed using the one or more received downlink assignment indicators (DAI) of plural downlink (DL) subframes associated with a single uplink (UL) subframe; and generating a bundled feedback for the one or more received DL packets, said bundled feedback having fewer bits than the number of the plural downlink (DL) subframes associated with the single uplink (UL) subframe; transmitting said bundled feedback on the single uplink (UL) subframe.