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`Response to Rule 312 Communication
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`Examiner
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`Art Unit AIA Status
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`DOMINIC E REGO
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`No
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`Applicant's amendment to claims 27,28, and 32 has not substantially changed the scope of previously allowed
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`/DOMINIC E REGO/
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Inventor: Nicholas W. Anderson
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`Confirmation No.: 8130
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`Applicant: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
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`Art Unit: 2647
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`Application No.: 15/645,523
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`Examiner: REGO, DOMINIC E
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`Filing Date: July 10, 2017
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`Atty. Docket: 3059.7430006
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`Title: POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS NETWORK
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`Ross G. Hicks
`Attorney for Applicant
`Registration No. 56,374
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`Date: March 19 2019
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`Nicholas W. Anderson
`Application No. 15/645,523
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`Remarks
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`Upon entry of the foregoing amendment, claims 27-34 are pending in the application, with
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`claims 27 and 31 being the independent claims. Claims 27, 28, and 32 are sought to be amended to
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`correct formal matters in the claims without changing the scope thereof. These changes are believed
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`to introduce no new matter, and their entry is respectfully requested.
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`Accordingly, Applicant respectfully requests that this Amendment be entered.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`STERNE, KESSLER, GoLDSTEIN & Fox P.L.L.C.
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`/Ross G. Hicks, #56,374/
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`Ross G. Hicks
`Attorney for Applicant
`Registration No. 56,374
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`Date: March 19 2019
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`1100 New York Avenue, N.W.
`Washington, D.C. 20005-3934
`(202) 371-2600
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`Nicholas W. Anderson
`Application No. 15/645,523
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`Amendments to the Claims
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`This listing of claims will replace all prior versions, and listings, of claims in the application.
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`1.-26. (Canceled)
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`27. (Currently Amended) A network device comprising:
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`a transmitter;
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`a receiver; and
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`a processor operatively coupled to the transmitter and the receiver; [[and]]
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`wherein the processor is configured:
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`to cause the transmitter to transmit an indication to a user equipment (UE) that
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`transmit power command (TPC) accumulation is enabled,
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`to cause the transmitter to transmit, on a single physical channel,
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`scheduling information and power control information that includes a multi(cid:173)
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`level TPC command, and
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`to cause the receiver to receive, from the UE based on the transmitted
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`scheduling information and the multi-level TPC command, an uplink signal.
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`28.
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`(Currently Amended) The network device of claim 27, wherein the multi-level TPC
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`command has a value selected from a plurality of pre-defined values.
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`29.
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`(Previously Presented) The network device of claim 27, wherein the uplink signal is
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`received on an uplink shared channel.
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`30.
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`(Previously Presented)
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`The network device of claim 27, wherein the
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`network device is any one of a Node-B or a base station.
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`31.
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`(Previously Presented) A method performed by a network device, the
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`method comprising:
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`transmitting, by the network device, an indication to a user equipment (UE) that transmit
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`power command (TPC) accumulation is enabled;
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`transmitting, by the network device on a single physical channel, scheduling
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`information and power control information that includes a multi-level TPC command;
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`and
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`rece1vmg, by the network device from the UE based on the transmitted
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`scheduling information and the multi-level TPC command, an uplink signal.
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`32.
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`(Currently Amended) The method of claim 31, wherein the multi-level TPC
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`command has a value selected from a plurality of pre-defined values.
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`33.
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`(Previously Presented) The method of claim 31, wherein the uplink signal 1s
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`received on an uplink shared channel.
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`34.
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`(Previously Presented)
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`The method of claim 31, wherein the network device
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`is any one of a Node-B or a base station.
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