Appeal No. 1999-1605
Application 08/502,882
(pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement of Appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Claim 15
Tanaka is directed to a protocol for a wireless signaling
system which includes a plurality of transmitters and a single
receiver. The protocol permits the receiver to accurately
identify data transmitted asynchronously from the plural
transmitters. Plural transmitters can communicate with the
same receiver by setting ID (identification) codes (col. 2,
lines 60-67; col. 3, lines 11-14). The device code in the
header indicates the type of transmitter (col. 2,
lines 62-63). Tanaka states (col. 3, lines 7-10): "The
receiver decides whether reception (or processing) is
permitted by first processing the device codes, and then
processing the subsequent data."
Appellants argue that claim 15 describes a system that
identifies an application associated with a remote control
device as a function of the identifying signal and a
predetermined association between multiple remote control
devices and multiple applications (Br6). It is argued that
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