Patent ID: 8139535

Claim:
A computer-implemented method performed at a mobile station, the method comprising: receiving a connection identifier value associated with the mobile station; receiving, via non user-specific channels, a channel allocation information comprising number of channels allocated to a group of channels, number of sub-spaces for the allocated group of channels, and a bit shift value; receiving a transmission including at least one group of channels, each group of channels allocated among one or more sub-spaces, and each sub-space including one or more resource blocks; and for each group: identifying a sub-space of the group associated with the mobile station based in part on the connection identifier and determining whether a resource block in the identified sub-space includes a portion of control channel information for the mobile station, wherein for all groups, a total number of times determining whether a resource block in the identified sub-space includes a portion of control channel information for the mobile station does not exceed a sum of a maximum number of resource blocks in sub-spaces for all groups.