Appeal No. 96-3047
Application 08/053,191
no routing capability [brief, pages 8 to 9].
The Examiner reiterates the rejection and asserts that
roaming and routing is taught by the applied prior art, and
the combination of Harrison, Freitas and Benjamin does teach
the invention of claim 1 [answer, pages 7 to 14].
At the outset, we find that roaming and routing is shown
by the applied prior art. As for roaming, Harrison discloses
it at columns 8 to 11, and even Appellants so acknowledge it,
see brief at page 8. Routing, too, is shown by the applied
prior art, for example see Benjamin at column 4, line 56 to
column 5, line 20.
We further find that Harrison discloses the wireless
network where the mobile units such as 10a communicate
wirelessly with a base station such as 12, see figures 2 and
4. When the mobile unit moves from one zone to another zone
and loses contact with the a base station in one zone, the
packets transmitted by the mobile unit are queued onto a
spooler until the mobile unit reestablishes contact with
another base station in another zone. The new base station
receives queued packets from the spooler and transmits them to
the mobile unit. After all the packets from
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