Appeal No. 2001-0605
Application No. 08/811,827
whenever the received signal strength falls below a predetermined
threshold.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. A home satellite television receiver, comprising:
circuitry configured to detect a received signal strength of a
satellite television signal received at an antenna and to determine
whether said received signal strength is above a threshold; and
circuitry configured to automatically generate a visual
indication that said received signal strength is below said
threshold for display on a television coupled to said circuitry
configured to detect.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Omoto et al. (Omoto) 4,935,814 Jun. 19, 1990
Claims 1, 2, 5-7 and 9-12 stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Omoto. Claims 3 and 8
stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Omoto.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Briefs1 and Answer for the
respective details.
1 The Appeal Brief was filed October 29, 1999 (Paper No. 8). In
response to the Examiner’s Answer dated January 19, 2000, (Paper No. 9), a
Reply Brief was filed March 20, 2000 (Paper No. 10), which was acknowledged
and entered by the Examiner in the communication dated March 30, 2000 (Paper
No. 11).
2
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