Appeal No. 1999-0297 Page 9
Application No. 08/502,253
222, and 226). The incremented number of the packet is
compared with the incremented number of the address, i.e., if
the third address corresponds to the address of the pager, the
third data packet is received. From these teachings of
DeLuca, we find that DeLuca selects a data packet
corresponding to the pager address by incrementing
sequentially through each of the messages until the packet to
be received is reached.
We find that in Kane, central terminal 102 stores
messages for transmission to a selective call receiver. The
messages are sent and received sequentially (col. 2, lines 45-
48). Each message 200 includes identification and control
information 202, as well as data information 204. The
identification and control information includes, inter alia,
address information 206, message sequence number 208, and
message repetition count 210 (Figure 2). Each of the messages
for a selected call receiver are given a message sequence
number which identifies the relative sequence of the message
in the transmission sequence (col. 8, lines 39-44). The
message sequence numbers for the received messages are put
into a linked list (Figure 3) and are ordered according to
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