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). 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007