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Scalable frequency band operation in wireless communication systems

  • US 8,842,619 B2
  • Filed: 07/07/2011
  • Issued: 09/23/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising:

  • a memory storing program codes and data; and

    a processor coupled with the memory and operable by using the program codes and data, the processor configured to;

    receive a plurality of communications respectively from a plurality of wireless access terminals;

    in response to said communications, make respectively associated determinations regarding whether the respectively associated wireless access terminals are capable of operating on more than one carrier simultaneously;

    assign at least one carrier to each said wireless access terminal based on said determinations; and

    instruct control channel transmissions, respectively, on the assigned carriers;

    wherein the control channel transmission on at least one of the assigned carriers permits the associated wireless access terminal to communicate within the at least one assigned carrier without utilizing information contained in any other control channel transmissions.

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