Ex parte SHOHARA - Page 12




          Appeal No. 1998-2608                                                        
          Application 08/570,439                                                      


          normal cellular based environment anyway.  More specifically,               
          as to the co-channel interference problems discussed in                     
          Hamabe, Ohteru specifically collects data to form an                        
          interference matrix in Figure 4 to be used within the memory                
          element 7 of the control station 1 in Figure 1.  Ohteru                     
          therefore complements the teachings of a database list as                   
          we outlined earlier in Hamabe, as well as the measurement of                
          various types of signals with respect to co-channel                         
          interference determinations set forth in that reference as                  
          well.  Hamabe, as indicated earlier in this opinion, deals                  
          with the relationship of co-channel interference problems and               
          noise.  Again, the focus of appellant's arguments with respect              
          to the rejection of claims 2 and 6 relates to arguments which               
          we have found unpersuasive earlier in this opinion, focusing                
          chiefly upon the mobile cellular environment of Ohteru and                  
          Hamabe in contrast to the fixed subscriber station environment              
          of Åkerberg.                                                                
               The addition of Wang to this combination of three                      
          references in the rejection of claims 7 through 10 buttresses               
          the evidence of obviousness of claims 7, 8 and 10.  It is not               
          believed necessary for us to discuss further the details of                 
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