ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. RE50,584, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Resource allocation" was invented by Yassin Aden Awad (Uxbridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient encoding techniques are described for encoding resource allocation data to be signalled to a user device. In one encoding technique one or more frequency blocks are assigned to a user device and a plurality of resource blocks within the assigned frequency blocks are allocated to the user device. The assignment of frequency blocks and the resource block allocation are encoded separately and signalled to the user device. On receipt of the signalled information...