Patent ID: 11924856
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An integrated circuit for controlling a transmitting apparatus, the integrated circuit comprising:
control circuitry which, in operation, generates system information configuration information; and
transmitting circuitry, which is coupled to the control circuitry and which, in operation,
transmits the system information configuration information to a receiving apparatus, the system information configuration information defining first subframes, and
transmits system information to the receiving apparatus in the first subframes;

wherein,
the system information configuration information indicates whether multimedia broadcast scheduling information is used to indicate second subframes for use in multimedia broadcast communication;
when the multimedia broadcast scheduling information is used to indicate the second subframes for use in multimedia broadcast communication, the first subframes are defined exclusive of the second subframes; and
when the multimedia broadcast scheduling information is not used, the first subframes are defined according to a subframe scheduling field of the system information configuration information, wherein each one of bits in the subframe scheduling field indicates whether a corresponding subframe is one of the first subframes.