Patent ID: 11924137
Assignee: NEO WIRELESS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a first device in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system that uses a communication channel that includes contiguous time-frequency resources, wherein the first device is capable of transmitting data to a network device within a time-frequency resource unit, wherein the time-frequency resource unit is within a resource zone comprising at least some non-contiguous time-frequency resources of the communication channel, the time-frequency resource unit being of a sequential set of time-frequency resource units, each time-frequency resource unit of the sequential set of time-frequency resource units comprising specific contiguous time-frequency resources for transmitting signals, the method comprising:
receiving an indication that determines time-frequency resources that are included in the resource zone, wherein the time-frequency resources of the resource zone are mapped to the sequential set of time-frequency resource units using the indication, and wherein a size in time-frequency resources of each time-frequency resource unit is determined by the indication;
receiving a number of information elements, wherein the number of information elements is specified by an indicator that precedes the number of information elements, wherein each information element includes a single value offset that indicates, in time-frequency resource units, a starting position of a corresponding allocation of one or more time-frequency resource units in the resource zone and a service identifier for the corresponding allocation; and
transmitting at least one of the signals including the data using at least one of the allocations based on the service identifier.