Appeal No. 96-1279
Application 07/870,982
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner's refusal to allow claims 1, 2, and 5, all of the
claims pending in the application. Claims 3 and 4 have been
cancelled. Claim 6 is indicated to be allowable over the prior
art of record (Supp. Examiner's Answer, Paper No. 18, page 2).
In the Examiner's Answer the examiner withdrew the rejection
from the Final Rejection and entered new grounds of rejection
under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(b) and 112, second paragraph. Appellants
amendment filed June 14, 1995, (Paper No. 17) has been entered
and is considered to overcome the § 112 rejection. We reverse
the remaining anticipation rejection.
The invention is in the field of cellular mobile
communications system and is directed to a method and apparatus
for reducing the size of the service area of a base station in
response to detection of control channel signal contamination.
Each base station has one control channel via which mobile units
requests service to the base station. When a mobile station
requests a call, it scans all the control channels and selects
the strongest control channel. Near a cell boundary a mobile
unit may be prevented from sending a call request to and/or
receiving a control channel signal from the base station due to
signal contamination or deterioration by noise, free-space
propagation losses, fading, etc. In the invention, this
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