Patent ID: 11902946
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 26:
27. The wireless communication device of claim 22, further comprising:
means for receiving, from the base station, a resource indicator value (MV) included in the resource allocation for the slot; and
means for receiving, from the base station, a subband index indicator (SBI) that identifies a subband corresponding to a portion of the first frequency portion of the slot for downlink communication;
wherein the means for communicating over the set of usable resources includes means for using, as the set of usable resources, a contiguous length of RBs beginning at a starting RB in the subband indicated by the SBI; and
wherein the starting RB is offset from an initial RB of the subband by a number of RBs corresponding to the RIV.