Patent ID: 9742529
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed on a computing device, the method comprising: receiving, by the computing device from a second device, an assignment of a set of individual subcarriers, where each of the individual subcarriers in the assigned set is not in active use according to signal activity levels detected on the each of the individual subcarriers; sending, by the computing device to the second device, a message communicated wirelessly via a subset of the assigned set of individual subcarriers; sending, by the computing device to the second device, a list that identifies any of the individual subcarriers of the assigned set that are not part of the subset used to send the message; and modifying, by the computing device based on the list, error detection and correction processing of messages received such that a lack of information on the any of the individual subcarriers identified in the list is not interpreted as an error.