Appeal No. 2000-1459
Application No. 08/703,907
OPINION
We REVERSE.
Claims 1 and 6 require a “position-beam correspondence
table” from which a beam is selected by referencing the table
using a computed position of a mobile satellite communication
terminal. Moritz neither discloses nor suggests such a look-
up table.
It is the examiner’s position that the storage of ground
positions in a position beam correspondence table reads on the
cell position data of Moritz, citing column 5, line 54 through
column 6, line 10. The examiner identifies the computation of
a first position as being disclosed in Moritz at column 7,
lines 17-20 and column 9, lines 45-46. The examiner
identifies the claimed limitation of “selecting a first
beam...by referencing said position-beam correspondence table,
utilizing said first position...as an index into said
position-beam correspondence table” [claim 1] as reading on
channel assignment and schedule, disclosed at column 9, lines
55-65, of Moritz.
However, column 5, line 54 through column 6, line 10 of
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