Patent ID: 9450735
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for operating a device in receiving a transmission over a plurality of communications links, the method comprising: determining, for each communications link in the plurality of communications links, a ratio according to: wherein each of the communications link characteristics is determined according to a product of a quantity of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) layers supported by the device for the communications link and a bandwidth allocated by the device to the communications link; dividing an overall pool of an allocatable receiver resource into a plurality of minimal allocatable units of the allocatable receiver resource; assigning one or more of the minimal allocatable units of the allocatable receiver resource to each communications link in the plurality of communications links according to the ratio for each respective communications link of the plurality of communications links; receiving data in the transmission with each communications link using the minimal allocatable units of the assigned allocatable receiver resource assigned to each communications link; and processing the data received with the minimal allocatable units of the allocatable receiver resource for each communications link.