Patent ID: 11963196
Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An integrated circuit comprising:
reception circuitry which, in operation, receives downlink control information which includes a resource allocation field; and
determination circuitry which, in operation, determines resources assigned to a terminal apparatus based at least on available bits in the resource allocation field;
wherein when a plurality of clusters are allocated to the terminal apparatus and a number of the available bits is smaller than a number of bits necessary to indicate the allocated plurality of clusters, the determination circuitry assumes a portion of the bits necessary to indicate the allocated plurality of clusters unrepresented by the available bits to be of a defined value, and
wherein when the plurality of clusters are allocated to the terminal apparatus and the number of the available bits is equal to or greater than the number of bits necessary to indicate the allocated plurality of clusters, the determination circuitry reads the available bits as fully representative of the bits necessary to indicate the allocated :plurality of clusters.