Appeal No. 2001-1467 Page 3
Application No. 08/687,039
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claim:
4. A radio pager for receiving from a base station a paging signal
including an address code group and a message code group, said
message code group including message data and musical note data, and
displaying, upon a coincidence of an address code of said address code
group with an address code assigned to said radio pager, a message on
an LCD while causing a speaker to sound an alert tone, said radio pager
comprising:
a controller which separates the paging signal into the address
code group and the message code group, and separates the message
code group into the message data and the musical note data; and
a melody generator which generates said alert tone in response to
said coincidence, said alert tone corresponding to, and reproducing at
least a portion of the musical note data separated by said controller from
the message code group;
said controller further comprising a message conversion table for
storing a plurality of first frequencies, each corresponding to a respective
musical note data, and a plurality of first musical notes, said first musical
notes respectively corresponding to said plurality of said first frequencies.
Claims 2-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over International
Publication No. W0 96/06417 (“Dalvi”) in view of Thomas C. Bartee, Data
Communications, Networks, and Systems (1991) (“Bartee”) further in view of U.S.
Patent No. 4,713,808 (“Gaskill”) even further in view of either U.S. Patent No.
5,394,140 (“Wong”) or U.S. Patent No. 5,332,994 (“Kawashima”). Claims 7-15 stand
rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Dalvi in view of Bartee further in view of Gaskill
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