Appeal No. 1999-1109
Application No. 08/359,904
The Examiner rejects claims 11-13, and 21 as anticipated
by Chia on page 7 of the Examiner’s answer. Particularly, the
Examiner makes reference to pages 8 and 13 and Figure 1 of Chia.
Appellant again argues, brief at pages 10-12, that claims 11, 12
and 21 call for two distinct radio telephone systems and
handover occurs when the velocity of the telephone exceeds a
threshold velocity. However, we find that in each of these
claims
there is a macro cellular telephone system and a micro cellular
telephone system, and depending upon the threshold velocity, a
handover occurs among one type of cellular system or across the
two different types of cellular systems involving the micro and
macro cells. We agree with the Examiner that Chia shows such a
system in Figure 1 and describes it in more detail on pages 8
and 13 of the disclosure. Chia, for example, states that its
system is arranged to determine, from a look-up table of stored
templates of conditions for handover, whether a handover between
base stations and between macro and microcells is appropriate,
see abstract. The look-up table is based on the velocity of
the telephone unit. Therefore, we agree with the Examiner that
Chia anticipates claims 11-13 and 21.
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