Appeal No. 1997-2066
Application 08/537,408
(a) the node selecting a second access point as a
candidate for accepting a handoff of the node from a
first access point;
(b) communicating an instruction from the node to
the first access point instructing the first access point
to relay a request to the second access point that the
second access point accept a handoff of the node from the
first access point to the second access point;
(c) directly relaying said request from the first
access point to the second access point; and
(d) performing the handoff, such that the node
communicates with the second access point.
The Examiner relies on the admitted prior art (APA) that
it was known for the handoff process to be controlled solely
by the base station (specification, p. 3, lines 6-10) and on
the following prior art:
Labedz 4,797,947 January 10,
1989
Yamauchi et al. (Yamauchi) 4,881,271 November 14,
1989
Harrison 5,181,200 January 19,
1993
(filed October 29,
1990)
Kojima et al. (Kojima) 5,323,446 June 21,
1994
(filed April 17,
1992)
Gilhousen et al. (Gilhousen) WO 91/07020 May 16,
1991
(International application published under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty)
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