Patent ID: 9295055
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, in a base station, for configuring control timing to and from a user equipment in a multiple cell communications network, wherein each cell of the multiple cell communications network is associated with an uplink-downlink configuration indexed by an uplink-downlink configuration number, wherein different uplink-downlink configurations define different resources for uplink and downlink transmission, the method comprising: determining at least one timing configuration number for configuring the timing of control signalling across a plurality of aggregated cells associated with the user equipment, each aggregated cell being associated with one of said uplink-downlink configuration numbers, wherein at least two uplink-downlink configuration numbers of the plurality of aggregated cells are not equal, and wherein each of the at least one timing configuration number is one of said uplink-downlink configuration numbers; and assigning the at least one timing configuration number to the user equipment; wherein the at least one timing configuration number is indicative of: