Patent ID: 8165081

Claim:
A method for a base station to assign to an user equipment (UE) communicating with the base station a number of coded control information symbols being transmitted with coded data information symbols during the same transmission time interval by the UE, the method comprising: assigning, by the base station, an offset value to the UE; assigning, by the base station, a Modulation and Coding Scheme for data reformation (data MCS) to the UE; transmitting information regarding the offset value to the UE; and transmitting information regarding the data MCS to the UE, wherein the number of coded control information symbols assigned to the UE for transmission of control information is determined based on the data MCS and the offset value, and the control information comprises at least one of channel quality information (CQI), Acknowledgement (ACK)/Non-Acknowledgement (NAK), Precoding Matrix Index (PMI), and Rank Indicator (RI).