Patent ID: 7944981

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: determining that non-control data needs to be transmitted; receiving a grant that identifies a resource block (RB) for transmitting the non-control data; determining a total number of RBs used for transmitting control data; if the total number of RBs used for transmitting control data is an odd number and if the RB for transmitting the non-control data is also used for transmitting control data, then performing at least the steps of: performing rate matching on the non-control data that needs to be transmitted; transmitting the non-control data only on a portion of the RB, while failing to transmit on a second portion of the RB; if the total number of RBs used for transmitting control data is an even number, then performing at least the step of: performing rate matching on the non-control data that needs to be transmitted; transmitting the non-control data on the whole RB.