Appeal No. 2000-1519
Application No. 08/674,875
determined to be greater than the maximum output level which may
be received by the transmission media. Therefore, received
signals that are stronger than the maximum output level may be
transmitted across the transmission media without saturating the
system.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A system for controlling the gain of signals transported
over transmission media in a distributed antenna network,
comprising:
a plurality of remote antenna units, each of said remote
antenna units including;
a signal level comparator for comparing a received signal
level of a signal received by the remote antenna unit with a
predetermined reference level and generating a single gain
control signal, and
a gain controller for adjusting the gain of the remote
antenna unit based on the single gain control signal generated by
its associated signal level comparator.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Lemson 5,321,849 Jun. 14, 1994
In addition, the examiner relies on admitted prior art [APA]
as set forth at pages 1-3 of the instant specification.
Claims 1-10, 12, 13, 15-18 and 20-23 stand rejected under
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