Patent ID: 7583640

Claim:
Apparatus for providing notification of communication resources allocated for communication of data, the allocated communication resources being comprised of a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) carriers and a plurality of frames, wherein each of the frames being a representation of a plurality of time slots associated with each of the plurality of RF carriers, said apparatus comprising: a matrix representer adapted at least to receive an indication of the assignable communication resource allocation for the communication of data, said matrix representer configured to perform a mapping of the assignable communication resource allocation to form a sub-set of the assignable communication resource, the sub-set being representative of less than all of the available communication resources received at said matrix representer; and a message generator adapted to receive the sub-set representation of the communication resource allocation assignment made by said matrix representer, said message generator configured to generate an allocation assignment message that includes logical values of the sub-set representation of the assignable communication resource allocation across at least two of the RF carriers and the representation of time slots for each of the included RF carriers.