Appeal No. 1999-1802
Application No. 08/806,466
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a wireless communication system with trunked
signal voting. The system contains a switch which allows any of the plural stations to
connect to any of the plural voters. An understanding of the invention can be derived from
a reading of exemplary claim 17, which is reproduced below.
17. A wireless communication system, comprising:
a plurality of signal reception sites;
a plurality of signal voters; and
a signal switch intercoupled between the plurality of signal reception
sites and the plurality of signal voters, the signal switch being controllable to
couple respective versions of received signals from any of the plurality of
reception sites to any of the plurality of signal voters.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Perry 4,317,218 Feb. 23, 1982
Lenchik et al. (Lenchik) 5,251,327 Oct. 5, 1993
Admitted Prior Art (APA) - Figure 1
Claims 1-4, 6-10 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over APA in view of Perry and Lenchik.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
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