Patent 10575324 was granted and assigned to Qualcomm on February, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for efficient blind decoding of a search space. A single DCI message may be divided and encoded into multiple element downlink control information (eDCI) components. Each eDCI may be independently encoded and thus independently decodable. A base eDCI may link to one or more associated extended eDCIs. A UE may identify a base eDCI corresponding to a radio network identifier associated with the UE, parse the base eDCI to obtain the base payload, determine the location of the one or more associated extended eDCIs based at least in part on the base eDCI, and parse the extended eDCI to obtain the one or more associated extended payloads. The UE may communicate based at least in part on a DCI message formed by combining the base payload and the one or more associated extended payloads.