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[olddog967]

chasjohn: I'm not sure how it was used in the petitions, but I would say that a "common specification" is a specification developed by an organization or a standards body that defines a term or function related to the work of that organization/standards body for use in developing specific products or applications. Below is one example of how the term was used.



"The TINA architecture has been developed over five years by a group of some one hundred engineers from member companies. The architecture has been further refined through feedback from validation projects in member companies. TINA-C interacts with standards bodies and industry consortia, including ATMF, DAVIC, ITU-T, NMF, and OMG, in order to achieve harmony of mutual specifications and avoid duplication of work. While TINA-C member companies cooperate in defining common specifications, they will compete in developing and providing software applications which conform to these specifications. Hence, TINA-C is characterized as "a cooperative solution for a competitive world."

http://www.tinac.com/press/deliver.htm


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Can you provide guidance on the meaning/content of the term: "common specification" referred to in the various petitions?

[infinite_q]

chasjohn, if I can interject re: common specification.

I believe this reference was to the short code power ramping patents, which all share a common specification. In other words, if you read the specification section of the patents, where the invention is explained and the preferred embodiment is defined you will see that they are all the same, or nearly identical. This is because they are all basically continuation patents that were generated from the same original patent.