Patent ID: 8379547

Claim:
A transceiver configured to communicate a frame of information over a radio interface with a base station node a frame handler configured to prepare a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) channel comprising N number of acknowledgements for N number of downlink (DL) subframes by using only two PUCCH channel resources and using PUCCH format 1a or PUCCH format 1b; and wherein when N=4: a first acknowledgement bit and a second acknowledgement bit are mapped to a OPSK constellation which is included in the PUCCH channel; a combination of the third acknowledgement bit and a fourth acknowledgement bit are used to select one of the two PUCCH channel resources for transmission of a first part of the PUCCH channel and to select one of the two PUCCH channel resources for transmission of a second part of the PUCCH channel.