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`First Named Inventor : Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
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`Int’! Application No.
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`: PCT/CN2016/078098
`: March 31, 2016
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`ATTY. DOCKET NO
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`736456.469USPC
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`FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
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`Sheet _1 of 1
`INT'L APPLICATIONNO.
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`Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
`INT’L FILING DATE
`March 31, 2016
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`GROUP ART UNIT
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`3GPP TS 36.211 V8.9.0, “3™ Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio
`Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and
`modulation (Release 8),” December 2009, 83
`3GPP TS 36.211 V12.8.0, “3Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group
`Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels
`and modulation (Release 12), December 2015, 136
`3GPP TS 36.212 V12.7.0, “3™ Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group
`Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Multiplexing and
`channel coding (Release 12), December 2015, 94
`3GPP TS 36.213 V12.8.0, “3Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group
`Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer
`procedures (Release 12), December 2015, 241 pages.
`International Search Report, dated December 26, 2016, for corresponding International Application
`No. PCT/CN2016/078098, 2
`Sesia et al., "LTE The UMTSLong Term Evolution - From Theory to Practice," WILEY, 2011,
`Chapter 9.3 and 16.3, 37
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`FILING DATE
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`9,407,419
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`9,743,394
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`2014/0086119
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`08/02/16
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`08/22/17
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`03/27/14
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`2016/0330720 11/10/16|YANGetal.
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`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`103369692
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`DATE CONSIDERED43 96/2020
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