Patent ID: 8531962

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, comprising: obtaining, by a wireless communication device, a first parameter indicative of radio resources allocated to a user equipment (UE) for data transmission; obtaining, by the wireless communication device, a second parameter indicative of another resource assigned to the UE for data transmission, wherein at least one of the first and second parameters is restricted, and each restricted parameter is limited to a set of allowed values among all available values for the parameter; determining, by the wireless communication device, a third parameter indicative of a minimum amount of radio resources to allocate to the UE; and determining, by the wireless communication device, acknowledgement (ACK) resource assigned to the UE for data transmission based on the first, second, and third parameters, wherein the determining the third parameter comprises obtaining a fourth parameter indicative of amount of available ACK resources, obtaining a fifth parameter indicative of amount of available radio resources, and determining the third parameter based on the fourth and fifth parameters.