Sony patents method for efficient wireless data scheduling

1. A method of operating communications device, the method comprising receiving, from infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, a control signal configured with one or more bits to indicate a resource allocation for transmitting an uplink transmission to the infrastructure equipment or receiving a downlink transmission from the infrastructure equipment within a set of contiguous resource units of a wireless radio interface, wherein the set of contiguous resource units comprises one or more uplink frequency sets each comprising a plurality of uplink resource units and one or more downlink frequency sets each comprising a plurality of downlink resource units, the resource allocation comprising at least one of the uplink resource units in the one or more uplink frequency sets for the uplink transmission or at least one of the downlink resource units in the one or more downlink frequency sets for the downlink transmission, and wherein the control signal is configured with the one or more bits to either indicate the resource allocation for the uplink transmission based on a total number of the uplink resource units in the one or more uplink frequency sets, or indicate the resource allocation for the downlink transmission based on a total number of the downlink resource units in the one or more downlink frequency sets, and the method comprises determining the resource allocation for the uplink or the downlink transmission based on the one or more bits, transmitting the uplink transmission to the infrastructure equipment or receiving the downlink transmission from the infrastructure equipment in accordance with the resource allocation.