Patent ID: 8432859

Claim:
A method involving an access network and at least one user equipment that support communication over an air interface using a plurality of component carriers, comprising: transmitting, from the access network, scheduling information comprising at least one downlink grant, at least one uplink grant, a first field of a first component carrier selected from the plurality of component carriers comprising information indicating that the first component carrier is an anchor carrier for said at least one user equipment, and a second field of the first component carrier comprising information indicating that at least one second component carrier selected from the plurality of component carriers is allocated as at least one non-anchor carrier for said at least one user equipment, so that said at least one user equipment can blindly decode the first field of the first component carrier to determine whether the first component carrier is its anchor carrier and subsequently decode the second field of the first component carrier to determine whether said at least one second component carrier is at least one non-anchor carrier.