Patent ID: 9107191
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for managing wireless communications between a base station and a user equipment, the method comprising: determining, at the user equipment, resources used to transmit an acknowledgment/nonacknowledgment signal in a channel, wherein the channel carries at least one other signal to the base station; identifying, at the user equipment, a reason to modify the resources, wherein the reason is based, at least in part, on a payload size of an uplink control signal exceeding a threshold, the uplink control signal including at least the acknowledgment/nonacknowledgment signal, wherein the payload size includes a number of bits of the acknowledgment/nonacknowledgment signal; in response to said identifying, modifying the resources according to the identified reason; and transmitting, from the user equipment, the acknowledgment/nonacknowledgment signal with the modified resources and the at least one other signal in the channel to the base station.