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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2009
Jingyuan Liu, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Chenglin Cui, Succasunna, NJ (US);
David G. Thuel, Middletown, NJ (US);
Jingyuan Liu, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Chenglin Cui, Succasunna, NJ (US);
David G. Thuel, Middletown, NJ (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for describing channel resources comprising allocating channel resources for a plurality of tiles; and determining a description of the channel resources allocated for a tile of the plurality of tiles by performing one or more of the following steps: a) comparing the size of the tile to a tile size threshold (TH) to determine if the size of the tile is small or large; b) comparing the allocation of the channel resources to the tile to an allocation threshold (TH) to determine if the allocation of the channel resources is sparse or not sparse; and c) determining if the allocation of the channel resources within the tile is regularly spaced or not regularly spaced.