Patent ID: 8520572

Claim:
A method in wireless communication terminal device, the method comprising: determining a first quantity of transmission resources corresponding to a first transport block based on at least a portion of first and second scheduling information; determining a second quantity of transmission resources corresponding to a second transport block based on at least a portion of the first and second scheduling information; and transmitting, from the wireless communication device, encoded control bits on a subset of a first set of transmission resources associated with the first transport block according to the first quantity of transmission resources and on a subset of a second set of transmission resources associated with the second transport block according to the second quantity of transmission resources; wherein the first set of transmission resources comprises assigned transmission resources on a first set of spatial layers based on transmission rank information; wherein the second set of transmission resources comprises assigned transmission resources on a second set of spatial layers based on the transmission rank information; wherein the first set of spatial layers is different than the second set of spatial layers; and wherein the control block is transmitted on the first subset of the first set of transmission resources, the first subset of the first set of transmission resources comprises transmission resources on each of the spatial layers in the first set of spatial layers and on the second subset of the second set of transmission resources, the second subset of the second set of transmission resources comprises transmission resources on each of the spatial layers in the second set of spatial layers.