Appeal No. 1999-0297 Page 7
Application No. 08/502,253
receives only one message at a time. Appellant notes (brief,
page 5) that in Kane, each of the sequence numbers represents
a single message addressed to a specific receiver. In
contrast to Kane, appellant's invention provides for each of
the address transmission numbers to correspond with a message
in a received frame of messages, which could be addressed to
any receiver. According to appellant (brief, page 4), because
of this fundamental difference of sending multiple messages in
a frame versus sending single messages, Kane does not suggest
the claimed feature missing from DeLuca.
We find that DeLuca discloses (col. 1, lines 6-9) a
selective call receiver, such as a pager. Messages are
grouped into corresponding address and information fields by
base station transmitter 50 (Figure 1 and col. 2, line 65 -
col. 3, line 10). Upon receiving a message having an address
matching the paging receiver, the message may be stored in
message memory 60 after being decoded by a microcomputer in
decoder 58. The message sequence of each data packet (Figure
3 and col. 3, lines 44-55) begins with a 2 digit format
signal. A "00" format signal reflects that no additional
information associated with the message follows. A "01"
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