Patent ID: 8780853

Claim:
A controlling base station comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit control data to a wireless communication device communicating, in accordance with a communication specification, with a communication base station, the control data not wirelessly transmitted from the communication base station to the wireless communication device; the control data representing control information related to communication between the wireless communication device and the communication base station; the control data transmitted to allow reception by the wireless communication device of the control data within a control channel, the control channel having a frequency and time allocated for control data transmissions from the communication base station to the wireless communication device, the control data transmitted to the wireless communication device such that the control data is received at the wireless communication device at the frequency and the time; the frequency and time different from another frequency and another time allocated to the controlling base station for transmission of other control data to other wireless communication devices receiving data from the controlling base station; the frequency, time, another frequency, and another time allocated in accordance with the communication specification.