Appeal No. 1998-2608
Application 08/570,439
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A cellular RF communication system having a plurality
of base stations, each base station communicating with a
plurality of assigned stationary RF subscriber stations,
respectively, each base station constituting a cell having a
plurality of sector beam antennas per cell, each sector beam
antenna illuminating a predetermined sector of said cell with
RF communication signals, a plurality of said assigned
stationary RF subscriber stations being assigned to each
sector of a cell, each assigned stationary RF subscriber
station having an RF transceiver and a high gain antenna with
a narrow beam width oriented toward the sector beam antenna
oriented toward its assigned sector, said base stations having
a database of measured co-channel interference characteristics
of each said assigned stationary RF subscriber stations, and,
with respect to each assigned stationary RF subscriber
station, means at each said base station for accessing said
database on demand for access to a communication channel by
one of said assigned stationary RF subscriber stations and
determine said access under predetermined channel quality
criterion.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner:
Ohteru 5,157,709 Oct. 20, 1992
Wang 5,280,630
Jan. 18, 1994
Hamabe 5,475,864 Dec. 12,
1995
(filed July 19,
1994)
Duque-Anton et al. (Duque-Anton) 5,475,868 Dec. 12,
1995
(filed Aug. 3, 1993)
Åkerberg et al. (Åkerberg) 5,533,027 Jul. 2,
1996
(effective filing date Nov. 19,
1993)
Claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
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