Patent ID: 9271271
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of a user equipment (UE) for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the method comprising: receiving, by the UE, first downlink control information (DCI) on a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) using first control channel elements (CCEs) of a first type, or second DCI on a second PDCCH using second CCEs of a second type, wherein the first DCI comprises information fields, and wherein the second DCI comprises the information fields of the first DCI and further comprises a HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource offset (HPRO) information field; determining, by the UE, a first PUCCH resource, n determining, by the UE, a second PUCCH resource, n transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK signal, associated with the first or second DCI, based on the determined first or second PUCCH resource.