Appeal No. 2001-1941
Application No. 09/023,469
signal over a twisted-pair wireline and a demodulating means
for receiving and demodulating the intermediate frequency
signal.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and
it reads as follows:
1. An apparatus comprising:
a first antenna for receiving a first information-
bearing signal at a first radio frequency;
a first downconverter for downconverting said
first information-bearing signal to a first
intermediate frequency;
a first transmitter for transmitting said first
information-bearing signal at said first intermediate
frequency over a first wireline, wherein said first
wireline is twisted-pair;
means for receiving said first information-bearing
signal at said first intermediate frequency from said
first wireline and for demodulating said first
information-bearing signal.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Baba et al. (Baba) 3,750,020 Jul. 31, 1973
Lee 5,504,936 Apr. 2, 1996
Nakagoshi et al. (Nakagoshi) 5,799,252 Aug. 25, 1998
(filed Mar. 1, 1996)
Claims 1, 5 through 7 and 11 through 13 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Lee in
view of Baba.
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