Appeal No. 1997-2066
Application 08/537,408
sending a signal to its current cell-site (first access point)
requesting a handoff which is forwarded to a system
controller, which performs the handoff, but there is no
evidence that the request is forwarded directly or otherwise
from the first access point to the second access point (Br9).
The Examiner finds that "[t]he first cell-site ([first]
access point) relays the request to the second cell-site
([second] access point) through a system controller 10
(page 6, line 33-page 7, line 1)" (EA6).
Gilhousen discloses that the request for handoff to a new
cell-site is relayed to the system controller 10 and the
system controller handles the handoff process by assigning a
modem in the new cell-site (second access point) and giving it
information about the call (p. 6, line 17 to p. 7, line 1; p.
12, lines 20-32). The system controller 10 is not a second
access point. The Examiner errs in finding that the request
is relayed "through" the system controller 10 to a second
access point.
The Examiner further states (EA18):
[T]he phrase "directly relaying" should be interpreted to
mean a communication which is transmitted by means of the
LAN as a whole from one point to another. The fact that
the communication may temporarily be held in a hub,
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