Appeal No. 2001-0656
Application No. 08/976,645
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective
positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
With regard to independent claims 1, 6 and 7, the examiner
applies Yamashita as showing the claimed subject matter but for
the secondary station switching OFF its transmitter and that the
matched secondary stations have their receivers “ready,” as
defined by appellants.
The examiner turns to Kapanen for a teaching, within a
wireless communication system, of a radiotelephone that switches
OFF its transmitter when it has nothing to transmit, for the
purpose of reducing power consumption and improving radio
frequencies utilization. Therefore, the examiner concludes that
it would have been obvious to switch OFF the transmitter of the
secondary station when it has nothing to transmit, such as after
having established communication with the primary station, for
the purpose of saving power and to improve radio frequencies
utilization.
Moreover, the examiner concludes that “it is necessary for
the secondary stations to have their receivers ready for
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