Methods and apparatus for providing a resource element (RE) identification system to process received uplink transmissions

1. A method for determining data stream from network communication, comprising:

obtaining information steam containing multiple resource elements (REs) from a network transmission;

identifying a portion of the REs containing uplink control information (UCI) as UCI REs from the REs containing data;

determining a first UCI RE containing acknowledgement (ACK) information, a second UCI RE containing first channel state information (CSI1), and a third UCI RE containing second channel state information (CSI2);

categorizing the first UCI RE as a first category, categorizing the third UCI RE as a third category, and categorizing REs containing data as the third category; and

sending the first category indicating ACK information to a downstream processing component.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving one or more symbols containing information streams from an uplink transmission.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

categorizing the second UCI RE as a second category.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending categorized REs to a soft demapper situated at the downstream processing component.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending categorized REs to a descrambler situated at the downstream processing component.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending categorized REs to a UCI combiner and extractor located at the downstream processing component.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending categorized REs to a signal to noise plus interference ratio (SINR) calculator.

8. the method of claim 1 , wherein identifying a portion of the REs includes categorizing REs in response to parameters received from a configuration parameter block.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating an array for indexing REs associated to categories.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising soft-demapping categorized REs based on their associated categories.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising descrambling categorized REs based on their associated categories.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising combining and extracting UCI from categorized REs.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising calculating signal to interference noise ratios (SINR) for each category of REs.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the information stream from one of a layer demapper and a despreader.

15. A method for categorizing data stream from network communication, comprising:

obtaining information steam containing multiple resource elements (REs) from a network transmission;

identifying a portion of the REs containing uplink control information (UCI) as UCI REs from the REs containing data;

determining a first UCI RE containing second channel state information (CSI2) and a second UCI RE containing first channel state information (CSI1);

categorizing the first UCI RE as a first category and categorizing REs containing data as the first category; and

sending the first category indicating CSI2 to a downstream processing component.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving one or more symbols containing information streams from an uplink transmission.

17. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

categorizing the second UCI RE as a second category.

18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

identifying a third UCI RE containing acknowledgement (ACK) information; and

categorizing the third UCI RE as a third category.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising sending categorized REs to a soft demapper situated at the downstream processing component.

20. The method of claim 15 , further comprising sending categorized REs to a descrambler situated at the downstream processing component.

21. A method for categorizing data stream from network communication, comprising:

obtaining information steam containing multiple resource elements (REs) from a network transmission;

identifying a portion of the REs containing uplink control information (UCI) as UCI REs from the REs containing data;

determining a first UCI RE containing first channel state information (CSI1) and categorizing the first UCI RE as a first category;

determining a second UCI RE containing second channel state information (CSI2);

categorizing the second UCI RE as a second category and categorizing REs containing data as the second category; and

sending the first category indicating CSI1 to a downstream processing component.

22. The method of claim 21 , further comprising receiving one or more symbols containing information streams from an uplink transmission.

23. The method of claim 21 , further comprising:

identifying a third UCI RE containing acknowledgement (ACK) information; and

categorizing the third UCI RE as a third category.

24. An apparatus for determining data stream from network communication, comprising:

means for obtaining information steam containing multiple resource elements (REs) from a network transmission;

means for identifying a portion of the REs containing uplink control information (UCI) as UCI REs from the REs containing data;

means for determining a first UCI RE containing acknowledgement (ACK) information, a second UCI RE containing first channel state information (CSI1), and a third UCI RE containing second channel state information (CSI2);

means for categorizing the first UCI RE as a first category, means for categorizing the third UCI RE as a third category, and means for categorizing REs containing data as the third category; and

means for sending the first category indicating ACK information to a downstream processing component.

25. The apparatus of claim 24 , further comprising means for receiving one or more symbols containing information streams from an uplink transmission.

26. The apparatus of claim 24 , further comprising:

means for categorizing the second UCI RE as a second category.

27. The apparatus of claim 24 , further comprising means for sending categorized REs to a soft demapper situated at the downstream processing component.