Appeal No. 1997-0624
Application No. 08/303,556
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a method and apparatus for signaling
interference protection in a channel reuse radio network. An understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 5, which is reproduced below.
5. In a channel reuse radio system, a method of signalling interference
protection, the method comprising the steps of:
differentiating, within a reuse pattern, between a desired voice
channel and an interfering voice channel, and
responding to the desired voice channel while remaining
unresponsive to the interfering voice channel based on the differentiation.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Eizenhöfer 4,754,453 Jan. 28, 1988
Claims 1, 2 and 4-8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Eizenhöfer.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 37, mailed Aug. 20, 1996) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 36, filed May 20, 1996) for the
appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
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