Appeall No. 1998-1398 Page 21
Application No. 08/400,637
some impersonal influence ...; not manual, without personal
intervention.” IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and
Electronics Terms 39 (2d ed. 1997)(copy attached). Giving the
claim its broadest reasonable interpretation in view of this
definition, the limitation recite assigning a route for an
incoming call without manual intervention.
The Gillig references teach the limitation.
Specifically, the references disclose a "process used by the
cellular cordless telephones in FIGS. 2 and 3 for receiving a
telephone call as a cellular telephone call or a cordless
telephone call according to user selectable preference."
Gillig ‘230, col. 1, ll. 57-61; Gillig ‘042, col. 1, ll. 61-
65; Gillig ‘558, col. 1, l. 66 - col. 2, l. 2; Gillig ‘674,
col. 2, ll. 5-8; and Gillig '506, col. 2, ll. 3-6. Figure 6
of each of the Gillig references shows that the process
receives an incoming call (502) and assigns it a route
corresponding to either a cellular connection (512) or a
cordless connection (510). Although the process considers a
user's selectable preference (504), the figure further shows
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