Appeal No. 96-0734
Application No. 08/056,739
through 25, 28 and 29 are allowed, and claims 11 and 27 are
objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but
would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including
all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening
claims.
The disclosed invention relates to a communications
system wherein a terminal mapping means maps each one of a
plurality of data terminals to a terminal group. The terminal
mapping means changes the number of data terminals in a group,
and the number of groups, in response to a count of the number
of unsuccesful attempts by the data terminal to transmit a
data message. An unsuccessful attempt to transmit occurs when
two or more data terminals within a terminal group attempt to
transmit data messages in response to a polling signal.
Claim 5 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
5. A communication system comprising:
a plurality of data terminals capable of transmitting and
receiving data messages, each data terminal associated with a
unique terminal identification number; and
terminal mapping means for mapping each data terminal to
a terminal group and for dynamically adjusting the number of
terminals in a group to be between a predetermined maximum
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