Patent ID: 8116262

Claim:
A method in a base station for enabling feedback in an uplink transmission of a communication system from a wireless terminal to a base station, the method comprising: the base station transmitting an indication of a type of feedback information requested by the base station, the indication comprising an information element in an uplink resource allocation portion of a data frame, the base station transmitting an indication of a type of feedback information requested by the base comprising: the base station transmitting: a) a total number of feedback resource allocations for a data frame; b) an indication if feedback resources are to be dedicated; c) for each feedback resource allocation of the total number of feedback resource allocations, the base station transmitting: i) an identifier for the wireless terminal for which the feedback resource allocation is occurring; ii) when the feedback resource is currently not released, the base station transmitting: an indication of feedback type requested by the base station and a location of a subsequent data frame with reference to the data frame indicating when feedback information requested by the base station will be received on an allocated feedback resource; when feedback resources are to be dedicated as a part of this method as indicated above, allocating a feedback resource by transmitting location information for the feedback resource.