Patent ID: 8483076

Claim:
A method used in a wireless communications system that facilitates identifying Rank Indicator (RI) within a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission, comprising: receiving a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission that includes at least a Rank Indicator (RI), a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), and a portion of data; employing a sequential decoding technique in order to detect the Rank Indicator (RI); and identifying a starting point of the portion of data based upon the detected Rank Indicator (RI) such that the starting point of the portion of data is without error, wherein the sequential decoding comprises: performing an Rank Indicator (RI) detection to identify the Rank Indicator (RI); performing a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) detection to detect the Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) based on the Rank Indicator (RI) detection; and performing a decoding for the portion of data based upon the Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) detection.