| CPC H04W 52/58 (2013.01) [H04W 52/325 (2013.01); H04W 52/34 (2013.01); H04W 52/146 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method at a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving two or more transmit power control (TPC) commands for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources of the UE in a cell, wherein each PUCCH resource is associated with a higher layer index value, at least one TPC command is carried by downlink control information (DCI), and the at least one TPC command is determined as a TPC command for PUCCH resources associated with a same higher layer index value;
determining a TPC command for each PUCCH resource according to the higher layer index value; and
transmitting each PUCCH resource using a power according to the determined TPC command.
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