Patent ID: 8446849

Claim:
A method for controlling power within a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving one or more uplink communications; determining if the one or more uplink communications have been transmitted at an optimum power level; determining one or more resource blocks employed by one or more user equipments (UEs) for transmitting one or more non-optimal uplink communications at a non-optimal power level; generating one or more power control messages for the one or more UEs that transmitted the one or more non-optimal uplink communications at the non-optimal power level, wherein one or more positions of one or more power control commands within the one or more power control messages are mapped respectively to the one or more resource blocks employed by the one or more UEs for transmitting the one or more non-optimal uplink communications at the non-optimal power level; and transmitting the one or more power control messages to the one or more UEs that transmitted the one or more non-optimal uplink communications at the non-optimal power level; wherein the one or more uplink communications include a plurality of data streams transmitted concurrently by at least one of the UEs at different frequencies and the power control messages individually adjust power of the one or more resource blocks utilized for the data streams being transmitted at the non-optimal power level.