Patent ID: 9264207
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for use in a mobile station communicable with a base station that provides a dynamic scheduling mode and a persistent scheduling mode, the method comprising: receiving from the base station a control channel signal that includes at least an RV (redundancy version) field and a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request) process field, and in case a value in the RV field and a value in the HARQ process field in the received control channel signal at least partially constitute a predetermined combination, selecting the persistent scheduling mode to communicate with the base station, wherein the value in the RV field and the value in the HARQ process field are predetermined values and the predetermined combination is used to indicate a code point for selecting the persistent scheduling mode, and wherein the code point is used to indicate to the mobile station a control channel format, which defines contents and interpretation of fields in the control channel signal.