Appeal No. 96-3047
Application 08/053,191
Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
1. Rejection of claim 1 over Harrison, Freitas and
Benjamin
With respect to claim 1, the Examiner combines Harrison
and Freitas to show wireless communication between the base
stations and the mobile units, but the combination lacks the
teaching of a "virtual router". The Examiner asserts that
Benjamin shows the use of a gateway unit (item 10 in figure 1)
to virtually route
messages between independent networks using alias names and
real names. The Examiner concludes that it would have been
obvious,
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the
invention, to combine Benjamin with the combined system of
Harrison and Freitas because it would allow the resulting
combined system to more efficiently interconnect independent
networks allowing resources in one network to communicate
resources in another network [answer, pages 5 to 6]. We note
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