Appeal No. 1998-2729
Application 08/220,851
Appellants’ invention relates to a radio with silent and
audible alerts for alerting a user that a call has been
received. Silent alerts, such as a vibrating device, can be
used where the ambient noise level is so high that the audible
alert would not be heard. On the other hand, a silent alert
would not be effective (i.e., felt) when the radio is not
carried by the user, such as when the radio is intercoupled
with an external power supply or some other holder away from
the user’s body. The invention provides for periodically
generating a first (e.g., silent) alert for a number of
cycles, and a second (e.g., audible) alert for a number of
cycles. Each cycle includes a first time period when the
alert is generated followed by a second time period when the
alert is not generated.
Representative independent claim 19 is reproduced as
follows:
19. A radio for communicating radio frequency (RF) call
(...continued)1
(answer-page 4) have misstated the precise claims under
appeal. Since claims 19, 26 and 33 (all pending independent
claims) stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph,
all claims dependent therefrom also stand rejected on the same
grounds (i.e., all pending claims in this application).
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