Ex parte LEE et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1998-2723                                                        
          Application No. 08/571,679                                                  


               the base stations thereby transmitting the paging                      
               response signals through the mesh network to a                         
               gateway connecting the mesh network to the paging                      
               broadcast system, the gateway thereafter                               
               transmitting the paging response signals to the                        
               paging control center as an acknowledgement to the                     
               paging broadcast signals.                                              



               The references relied on by the examiner are:                          
               Leyburn et al. (Leyburn)      3,575,558      Apr.  20,                 
               1971                                                                   
               Wesby                    5,051,741      Sept. 24, 1991                 
               Lee, “Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems,”                     
               McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1989, pages 70 and 71.                           
               Bartee, “Data Communications, Networks, and                            
               Systems,” SAMS, 1991, pages 215 through 218.                           
               Claims 30 through 34 and 37  stand rejected under 351                                           
          U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Wesby in view of                    
          Leyburn and Bartee.                                                         
               Claims 35 and 36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as               
          being unpatentable over Wesby in view of Leyburn, Bartee and                
          Lee.                                                                        
               Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the                  


               1Claim 38 is not listed in the statement of the rejection of the claims
          on appeal (answer, pages 4 and 5).                                          
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