Appeal No. 2000-0274
Application No. 08/724,568
The admitted prior art (specification, page 1, lines
23 through 29) discloses that it was well known in the art for
a message fragment of a transmitted message to include
“information indicating the length of the message fragment.”
In Faris, the size of a message is determined by a header
portion of the message (column 4, lines 27 through 29). Faris
uses message deletion when the memory 200 in the selective
call receiver
40 does not have room for a new message (column 4, lines
29 through 36; column 5, lines 1 through 20). In a second
embodiment disclosed by Faris, a memory full threshold “is
continuously adjusted according to an updated average length
of messages received by the portable device” (column 2, lines
33 through 35). Hamamoto explains that a typical information
format includes end codes that terminate a single transmission
to a pager (Figure 23; column 19, lines 48 through 51). When
end codes are not used, message length is a parameter of the
message sent to the pager (column 8, lines 24 through 33).
During reproduction of the message, the pager reads its memory
in accordance with that parameter (column 8, lines 33 through
36).
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