Patent ID: 8195176

Claim:
A method for transmitting control messages at a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: grouping a plurality of control messages for at least one user equipment into one or more control message groups based on at least one criteria of whether or not uplink Acknowledgment/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) channel indexes are allowed to be implicitly used in a corresponding control message, whether or not a user equipment the corresponding control message is intended for is able to implicitly use the uplink ACK/NACK channel indexes, a size of the corresponding control message, whether or not the corresponding control message is segmented into a plurality of subblocks, a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level applied to the corresponding control message, a size of the corresponding control message after applying the MCS level, and a frequency partition in which the corresponding control message is present; generating the control message construction information including information about a number of control messages included in each control message group generated by the grouping; and transmitting the control message construction information and the plurality of control messages to the at least one user equipment.