Appeal No. 1999-0172
Application 08/334,733
appeal (see page 2 in the main brief and page 1 in the reply
brief), as being anticipated by Mansell.
III. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection based on Bickley.
Bickley discloses a GPS communications interface which is
shown in Figure 1 and described at column 2, line 54, through
column 4, line 9. The interface includes a direct GPS port 46
for communicating GPS pseudo range data from another
differential receiver (see column 3, lines 12 through 15).
Among the possible applications for the interface is the
interrogatable tag system shown in Figure 3 and described at
column 4, line 53, through column 5, line 30. Of this system,
Bickley states that
[t]he interrogatable tag system shown in FIG. 3 can
be used to provide identification, location/position
data, and message transfer by radio interrogation.
Applications include tracking and monitoring of
ground vehicles (e.g., police, taxi, truck,
tractors), aircraft, ships, airport assets,
warehouse assets, dockside assets, harbor assets,
and military applications such as interrogatable
friend or foe (IFF) systems [column 5, lines 8
through 15].
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