Appeal No. 2001-0950 Application No. 08/534,855 Correction (FEC) bits. The method also includes the step of determining a Base Error Rate (BER). The method further includes the step of decoding the FEC bits only when the BER is above a predetermined level. See Appellants' specification on page 21, lines 7 through 21. The second aspect of the invention includes a method of communicating between a base station and a plurality of wireless subscriber stations in a wireless communication system in which the base station controls a stream of message blocks including a plurality of TEI messages corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of the subscriber stations. The method includes the steps of arranging all the TEI messages in a continuous group and beginning the group of TEI messages with a unique TEI message and ending the group of TEI messages with a second unique TEI message. The unique TEI messages differ from all other TEI messages by at least six characters. See Appellants' specification on page 21, lines 22 through 34. Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows: 1. A method of operating a wireless subscriber station in a wireless communications system to limit power expenditure in said wireless subscriber station, said wireless communications system including at least one base station for transmitting a communication stream of message blocks to a plurality of wireless subscriber stations, said method comprising the steps of: 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007