Appeal 2007-1630
Application 10/422,661
Regarding Appellant’s second argument (i.e., that in order for
Pombo’s system to be locked into a base station, the same base station has to
be connected to the handset for 10 minutes, at which time a sleep period is
calculated), the Examiner disagrees, and again points to column 11, lines 3-
12 of Pombo in support of the assertion that the sleep period is calculated
“when the same control channel was NOT detected within the last ten
minutes.” (Ans. 9-10). As discussed supra, we agree with Appellant (App.
Br. 4) that Pombo’s sleep period is not calculated unless the current search
period is every 10 seconds and the same control channel was detected within
the last 10 minutes, as shown in decision block 608 of Pombo’s Fig. 6.
Nevertheless, we find Appellant’s claimed “nap mode” broadly but
reasonably reads on another portion of Pombo, as discussed infra.
Regarding Appellant’s third argument (i.e., that Pombo’s system does
not go into a sleep mode if contact with a base station is lost), the Examiner
disagrees, and again points to column 11, lines 3-11 of Pombo as describing
how the sleep period is calculated when contact with a base station is lost
(Ans. 10). As discussed supra, we agree with Appellant that the sleep mode
shown in Pombo’s block 614 (Fig. 6) is entered into only when the mobile
handset is locked into a base station.
However, as noted by Appellant (App. Br. 4-5), Pombo also discloses
a “no control activity” process, which calculates a dramatically increased
search period when no control channel has been detected (col. 11, ll. 27-62).
We note that Appellant’s claimed “nap mode” is broadly recited in terms of
“entering a nap mode until said nap termination condition is met, during said
nap mode a state of lower power consumption being achieved including
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