Patent ID: 8520626

Claim:
A method for transmitting non-user-specific control information in a wireless communication system, comprising: in a downlink time period which includes one or more time zones, a base station sends non-user-specific control information through broadcasting, multicasting or unicasting in a time zone in which user specific control information is sent; and a terminal obtains and decodes the non-user-specific control information, and then obtains information needed to decode user specific control information according to the obtained non-user-specific control information; wherein, the base station also sends time-frequency resource allocation information of the non-user-specific control information in the time zone in which the non-user-specific control information is sent; correspondingly, according to the time-frequency resource allocation information of the non-user-specific control information, the terminal obtains time-frequency resource allocation used for sending the non-user-specific control information, and then decodes and obtains the non-user-specific control information in the obtained time-frequency resource allocation.