Appeal No. 1997-0402
Application 07/843,685
claims 7, 16 and 17 would be allowable if rewritten in
independent form to include all limitations of any base
claims. Claims 23 through 41 have been canceled.1
The invention relates to a portable communication
unit. When a caller places a telephone call to a called
party, the called party’s portable unit receives paging
signals and automatically initiates a return telephone call
without alerting (e.g., ringing) the called party. If the
portable unit receives an “in-progress” signal via the return
call, the portable unit alerts (e.g., rings) so that the
called party becomes aware of the call. If there is no “in-
progress” signal via the return call, meaning the caller is no
longer connected, the portable unit does not alert the called
party. Consequently, once the “in-progress” signal ceases to
be received at the portable unit, the portable unit will stop
supplying the alerting indication. Thus, if a caller who
originates a telephone call to a called party hangs up at any
1Although the Examiner’s Answer also stated that claims
7, 16 and 17 must be rewritten to overcome a rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 112, we note this rejection had been withdrawn.
This
is acknowledged in the Examiner’s Supplemental Answer, page 1.
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