Patent ID: 9674834
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04W

Claim:
1. A user equipment comprising: an antenna, operatively coupled to a receiver, the antenna and the receiver configured to receive a first downlink signal; wherein the first downlink signal includes a resource assignment having a first indication of a first resource of a plurality of resources and a number of resources of the plurality of resources; wherein the plurality of resources are in a sequence; wherein the downlink signal includes a second indication as to applying the resource assignment to a single time interval or to a plurality of time intervals; wherein each time interval includes at least one time slot; a controller, operatively coupled to the receiver, the controller configured to determine, based on the second indication, whether the resource assignment is for a single time interval or for a plurality of time intervals; the receiver, the antenna and the controller further configured on a condition that the resource assignment is for a single time interval, to receive a second downlink signal in the first time interval in the first resource and in the number of consecutive resources in the sequence; and the receiver, the antenna and the controller further configured on a condition that the resource assignment is for the plurality of time intervals, to receive a second downlink signal in each of the plurality of time intervals in the first resource and in the number of consecutive resources in the sequence.