Patent ID: 8027295
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An electronic device comprising: a memory configured to store control channel division information, wherein the control channel division information indicates how a control channel is divided between a downlink allocation portion and an uplink allocation portion; and a controller configured to receive downlink and uplink allocation information signaled in the control channel by a wireless communications system, wherein the control channel is divided into the downlink allocation portion used for the downlink allocation information and the uplink allocation portion used for the uplink allocation information; wherein the downlink allocation portion and the uplink allocation portion of the control channel have first and second ends, the first and second ends each corresponding to control channel resources comprising, in part, the control channel, wherein the first ends of the downlink allocation portion and the uplink allocation portion coincide with the first and second ends of the control channel, respectively, and wherein the downlink allocation information is signaled using control channel resources starting first with the control channel resources coincident with the first end of the control channel and the uplink allocation information is signaled using control channel resources starting first with the control channel resources coincident with the second end of the control channel; and to search for the downlink allocation information in the downlink allocation portion and the uplink allocation information in the uplink allocation portion.