Appeal No. 1997-1236
Application No. 08/212,385
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-20, which constitute
all the claims in the application. An amendment after final
rejection was filed on March 22, 1996 but was denied entry by
the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for operating an optical RF support network. More
particularly, the invention relates to the communication of
navigation RF signals between a master supporting site such as
a GPS satellite and a plurality of secondary supporting sites.
A particular feature of the disclosed invention is that the
secondary supporting sites do not require sophisticated and
expensive clock circuits.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An optical RF support network comprising:
a master supporting site;
2
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