Appeal No. 95-3346
Application 07/953,320
Claim 11 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Lee in view of French and
Nazarenko.
Claims 12, 13, 15, 16 and 18-27 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over
Lee, McRae and Nazarenko.
Claims 14 and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Lee, McRae,
Nazarenko and French.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellant with regard to the propriety of these
rejections are set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 18), the examiner's answer (Paper No. 21), the
examiner’s answer to the reply brief (Paper No.26), and the appellant's brief (Paper No. 20) and reply
brief (Paper No. 22).
Appellant's Invention
Appellant’s invention relates to a mobile radio telephone system and involves a method for
transmitting a control message over a fading or shadowed, error-prone channel. Each time a message
for controlling an information packet is to be transmitted, the message is transmitted at different times, at
different power levels and on different frequencies. Preferably, three transmissions are made, each at a
different time, power level and frequency. Figure 6 is a chart illustrating subslots in a repeating frame
used for transmission of a control message. Each slot 1-
6 includes four subslots. Each slot is at a different frequency and each slot succeeds a previous slot in
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