Appeal No. 2000-0272
Application No. 08/922,715
Claim 13 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
13. In a selective call transceiver that receives
stored messages from a base station on a forward channel and
transmits signals to the base station on a reverse channel,
a method of re-establishing communication with the base
station after temporarily losing the forward channel,
comprising:
a) storing an indication of a re-registration interval;
b) determining when the forward channel has been lost,
irrespective of whether a message was being received
from the base station;
c) upon re-acquiring the same forward channel,
determining whether the forward channel was lost for a
duration that exceeds the re-registration interval; and
d) without changing channels, transmitting a re-
registration signal to the base station if the re-
registration interval was exceeded.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Fascenda et al. (Fascenda) 4,845,491 Jul. 4, 1989
Balachandran 5,594,943 Jan. 14, 1997
(effective filing date Aug. 9, 1994)
Claims 1, 3 through 5 and 9 through 13 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the admitted prior
art, Balachandran and Fascenda.
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