Patent ID: 8908492

Claim:
A user equipment (UE) device for use in a wireless communication network, wherein the UE device is configured to use transmit diversity, and to transmit a reference symbol and a modulation symbol on multiple orthogonal resources on an antenna, the UE device comprising: a processor; and a wireless network connectivity interface, wherein the processor and wireless network connectivity interface are configured to: select a first orthogonal resource from a plurality of orthogonal resources according to a state of information bits to be communicated by the UE device; determine a second orthogonal resource from the first orthogonal resource, wherein if the selecting chooses the first orthogonal resource from a first subset of the plurality of orthogonal resources, the second orthogonal resource is the same as the first orthogonal resource, and if the selecting chooses the first orthogonal resource from a second subset of the plurality of orthogonal resources for at least one value of the index of the first orthogonal resource, the second orthogonal resource is an orthogonal resource whose index is an index of the first orthogonal resource offset by a predetermined constant; and transmit the reference and modulation symbols on the first and the second orthogonal resources, respectively, on a first antenna, wherein the first orthogonal resource and the second orthogonal resource are PUCCH resources and wherein the plurality of orthogonal resources consists of PUCCH resources.