Appeal No. 95-4897
Application 08/242,806
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 6 through 10. Claims 1 through 5 have been canceled.
The invention relates to the field of cellular
telephones. In particular, Appellants disclose on page 5 of
the specification that Figure 1 shows an embodiment of the
base station 100 implemented with three transceivers 121, 122
and 123, each switchable to a voice channel or to a control
channel. On page 7 of the specification, Appellants disclose
that Figure 3 shows the possible transceiver states of the
three transceivers. In particular, Appellants disclose that
the system allows for all three transceivers to be in the
voice channel state. This places the system in a busy state
because of unavailability of a control channel. The busy
state results in the system being unable to respond to an
incoming call. This is because there is a temporary
inactivation of the control channel because all three
transceivers are in the voice channel state.
The independent claim 6 is reproduced as follows:
6. A method for operating a radiotelephone base station
including one or more standard cellular telephone cell
site transceivers to allow standard cellular telephone
terminals to set up and communicate over a wire line,
said method comprising the steps of:
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