Patent ID: 8923223

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, comprising: identifying a first component carrier (CC) on which a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is received by a user equipment (UE), the first CC being one of a plurality of CCs configured for the UE; identifying a second CC on which a data transmission associated with the PDCCH is received by the UE, the second CC being one of the plurality of CCs configured for the UE, wherein the data transmission comprises one or more transport blocks; determining a transmission mode of the second CC; determining that K transport blocks are supported by the transmission mode of the second CC, where K is one or greater; determining K physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources based on the first CC on which the PDCCH is received and the second CC on which the data transmission is received; and sending, by the UE, acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information for the data transmission based on the PUCCH resources.