| CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04W 16/24 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims | 

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               1. A method for capability transfer by a user equipment (UE) in a cellular network, the method comprising: 
            in a first mode, attempting to transmit capability messages representing successively smaller subsets of a set of carrier aggregation (CA) combinations from the UE to a base station of a serving cell of the cellular network until either a capability message is successfully received by the base station or a first threshold number of unsuccessful attempts to transmit a capability message has been performed. 
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