Appeal No. 2001-0622
Application No. 08/594,202
within a communications system having an infrastructure detects
that the unit’s user initiated a communications mode change from
a first communication path to a second communication path having
an identity. The unit then transmits to the infrastructure a
message including the ID and the identity of the second
communication path.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method comprising the steps of:
detecting, by a communication unit having an identification (ID)
within a communications system having an infrastructure, that the
communication unit’s user initiated a communications mode change
from a first communication path having a home system to a second
communication path having an identity, wherein the infrastructure
is affiliated with the home system of the first communication
path;
transmitting, by the communication unit to the infrastructure, a
communications mode change message including the ID and the
identity of the second communication path.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Farwell et al. 5,444,766 Aug. 22, 1995
Tanaka et al. 5,493,693 Feb. 20, 1996
(filed Apr. 12, 1994)
Henry 5,590,396 Dec. 31, 1996
(filed Apr. 20, 1994)
Claims 1-3, 7-11 and 15-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
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