Patent ID: 11924835
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 communication apparatus, the integrated circuit comprising:
receiving circuitry, which, in operation, receives, from a base station, a control channel signal that includes a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request) process field and other control information format fields; and
control circuitry, which, in operation, supports a dynamic scheduling mode or a persistent scheduling mode in communicating with the base station,
wherein,
responsive to a value in the HARQ process field and a value in another control information format field in the received control channel signal at least partially constituting a predetermined combination of values, the control circuitry supports the persistent scheduling mode in communicating with the base station, and
interpretation of at least one control information format field, which is other than the HARQ field and the another control information format field, is different between the dynamic scheduling mode and the persistent scheduling mode, wherein the interpretation is based on the predetermined combination of values.