Ex Parte Malcolm - Page 9


               Appeal 2007-1630                                                                            
               Application 10/422,661                                                                      
                      We find representative claim 1 broadly but reasonably reads on the                   
               Pombo reference, as follows:                                                                
                      Claim 1      Pombo                                                                   
               A method for managing battery          We find Pombo discloses a method                     
               energy usage by a mobile wireless      for reducing power consumption in a                  
               network device comprising:             portable, battery powered,                           
                                                      communication device (See                            
                                                      Abstract).                                           
               determining that a period of signal    We find Pombo discloses detection                    
               intermittence has started by detecting of transient control channels that are               
               threshold conditions for a transient   intermittently found and                             
               network signal being intermittently    intermittently lost (col. 5, ll. 34-38;              
               found and intermittently lost;         col. 6, ll. 31-35).                                  
               recording events of said threshold     We find Pombo discloses recording                    
               conditions with operational criteria   events of threshold conditions (signal               
               associated with operational            detection) with operational criteria                 
               conditions of the events;              (i.e., the time when the signal was                  
                                                      detected) in the control activity table              
                                                      (col. 5, ll. 34-38; col. 6, ll. 31-41;               
                                                      col. 12, ll. 13-28 and 56-67).                       
               upon each detection of network         We find Pombo discloses detection                    
               signal loss                            of loss of a control channel (col. 11,               
                                                      ll. 28-31).                                          
               determining from said event records    We find Pombo discloses                              
               a nap termination condition            determination of a nap termination                   
                                                      condition (next control time) from                   
                                                      data maintained in the control                       
                                                      activity table (col. 11, ll. 53-55).                 
               upon which network signal has been     We find Pombo discloses that the                     
               historically reliable following said   next control time is the time when                   
               period of signal intermittence         the control signal has been                          
                                                      historically reliable (i.e., available),             
                                                      as stored in the activity table in                   
                                                      memory 117 (col. 11, ll. 53-59).                     



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