Patent ID: 9241327
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L,H04M,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of wireless resource block assignment in a long term evolution wireless network comprising: creating a downlink control information message for a user equipment, the downlink control information message comprising: a resource block assignment field which indicates up to a maximum number of allocated physical resource blocks scheduled to the user equipment by specifying an index into a plurality of all possible physical resource block allocations of between 1 and the maximum number of allocated physical resource blocks, wherein the resource block assignment field comprises at most a number of bits necessary to address all of the possible physical resource block allocations for assignments of 1 to the maximum number of allocated physical resource blocks of physical resource block groups in a plurality of physical resource block groups, and wherein the maximum number of allocated physical resource blocks is an integer greater than 0 and less than a total number of physical resource blocks; and sending the downlink control information over a physical downlink control channel using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.