Appeal No. 2000-1703
Application No. 08/963,545
claim 20. Accordingly, claims 20-22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102 as anticipated by Jackson.
2. Rejection of Claim 23
Claim 23 relates to a node for use in a building network and
calls for transceiver means for wirelessly receiving and
transmitting information between similar nodes within a building
and/or a master node within a building. Jackson teaches the
claimed node as level one unit 107 or 109 which includes
transceiver means for RF communication from and to “other similar
nodes,” represented by level two units 111 and 113 and/or from
and to “a master node,” disclosed as base site 101 (Fig. 1 and
col. 2, line 29 through col. 3, line 7). The claim further calls
for means responsive to the information that causes the
transceiver to repeat the information when the information is
intended for another node and to take local action on the
information when the information is intended for that node.
Jackson teaches the claimed function of the node by disclosing
that each remote unit is either coupled to one or more vending
machine for collecting information which is retrieved by the
master node (col. 2, lines 47-56) or configured to relay the
information when the node determines that the message is intended
for another node (col. 8, lines 18-22). Based on our
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