Appeal No. 96-3618 Application 08/004,598 Kinoshita discloses a portable radio telephone system which "can be used both for an urban public cellular radio telephone system and for a private radio telephone system which is built inside a local area" (col. 1, lines 46-48). The private radio telephone system attached to the private branch exchange (PBX) in figure 3 corresponds to the claimed "first wireless telephone base-station." The private system has two transceivers (col. 3., lines 65-67): "The radio telephone subscriber circuits are connected to transmission/reception antennas 18, 19 through transceivers (TRX) 16 . . . ." A base station of a cell of the public cellular system corresponds to the claimed "second wireless telephone base-station." The portable telephone set 20 corresponds to the claimed "portable wireless telephone instrument" and can communicate with the private radio telephone system or the public cellular radio telephone system (e.g., col. 3, line 65, to col. 4, line 7). The power level of the private radio telephone system is kept at a very low intensity so as to not affect the public cellular radio telephone system (col. 2, lines 10-18), and the cellular system uses a high power level to cover a greater geographical - 17 -Page: Previous 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007