Appeal No. 2000-2291
Application No. 08/777,721
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention is directed to a wireless telephone
set having a built-in facsimile and a cordless unit and to a
method for informing a user of the status of the facsimile
apparatus by an aural message. A voice mixer stores a plurality
of messages which are processed and transmitted to the cordless
unit according to specific codes indicating the status of the
facsimile apparatus (specification, pages 4 & 5). As depicted in
figures 3A and 3B, the method includes the steps of sensing and
verifying whether a transmit or receive key is received, of
sending the aural message to inform the user of the mode and the
completion/failure of the facsimile transmission/reception
(specification, page 8).
Independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method for sending an aural message to a user of a
cordless handset of a wireless telephone set having and2 a base
unit incorporating a facsimile apparatus, said method comprising
the steps of:
determining an operational state of said facsimile
apparatus; and
transmitting an aural message, stored in a voice mixer and
corresponding to the operational state of said facsimile
apparatus, to said cordless handset.
2 We recommend that Appellant and the Examiner consider amending the
claim to clarify the structure included in the telephone set other than the
base unit.
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