Patent ID: 11870545
Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES I LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A device for use in a base station, the device comprising:
a communication interface;
a memory; and
a processor, operatively coupled to the communication interface and the memory,
wherein the processor is configured to:
transmit, using the communication interface, a control message over a physical control channel in a first of a plurality of time slots, wherein the control message has power control bits for a plurality of UEs, wherein the first of the plurality of time slots has a second downlink physical control channel and a downlink physical shared channel; and
receive, using the communication interface, a signal in an uplink physical channel in a second time slot from the UE having a transmission power level based on the power control bits received in the control message.