Appeal No. 96-0309
Application 08/135,370
sent from the satellite station and must be sent alternatingly
on channels CH1 and CH2, not simultaneously.
Fourth, since "Fig. 2a shows a customarily used TDMA
frame structure" (specification, page 2, line 4), figure 2a
appears to be admitted prior art. Figure 2a shows the time
slots of the first half of a parcel sent in the first channel
and the time slots of the second half of the parcel sent
simulataneously in the second channel. Is the only difference
between appellants' claimed subject matter of claim 1 and the
admitted prior art of figure 2a that a whole first parcel is
sent in the first channel and a whole successive parcel sent
alternatingly in the second channel, instead of half a parcel
in each?
Fifth, as described in connection with figure 4, for
example, the frequency dispersion circuit MMF appears to only
distribute the incoming packets of information into the
correct time slots of the different channels. It does not
appear that the disclosed frequency dispersion circuit MMF has
circuitry for reordering the time slots of parcels in any way.
At least some sort of memory (delay) before the modulators
would be required. Therefore, we question whether it is
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