Appeal No. 2000-1703
Application No. 08/963,545
information therefrom (col. 2, lines 47-50). Therefor, level two
units (second non-master nodes) and level one units (first non-
master nodes) include transceiver means for “receiving the
information and transmitting local information” and “receiving
and repeating both the information and the local information,”
respectively. Jackson also indicates that base site 101 (master
node) is equipped with “transceiver means for transmitting the
information” as the base site sends commands and receives local
information from the remote units (col. 2, lines 12-14 and 59-
62).
Claim 22 calls for a building network similar to the network
of claim 21 including “a second non-master node” that transmits
local information and “a first non-master node” that repeats the
local information. The claim further requires “a master node”
that receives the local information repeated by the first non-
master node. As discussed above, with respect to claims 20 and
21, Jackson’s level two and level one units read on the claimed
second and first non-master node while base site 101 reads on the
claimed master node.
Therefore, Jackson teaches all the limitations of
independent claims 20 and 22 as well as claim 21, dependent upon
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