Appeal No. 2000-1699
Application No. 08/706,123
The disclosed invention pertains to a wireless network
for communicating between processing devices.
Representative claim 25 is reproduced as follows:
25. A wireless network comprising:
a master processing device for generating information and
broadcasting said information through wireless transmission of
signals;
a plurality of individually identifiable and addressable
client processing devices having circuitry for receiving said
information from said master processing device and transmitting
other information to said master processing device, said master
processing device broadcasting data to all of said client
processing devices and selecting one and only one of said client
processing devices to acknowledge receipt of each bit of data
said master processing device broadcasts to all of said client
processing devices.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Tejima et al. (Tejima) 4,809,268 Feb. 28, 1989
The admitted prior art.
Claims 25, 27, 3, 4, 6-9 and 20-24 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by the disclosure of
Tejima. Claims 26, 11, 12 and 14-16 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers
Tejima in view of the admitted prior art.
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