Appeal No. 2002-1006
Application 09/132,351
being a separately defined field. In particular, Sanders teaches
in column 10, lines 17 through 40, that figure 6 illustrates a
flow diagram of the steps executed by a communication device and
a dispatch short message service communication. The project flow
begins (601) when the communication device transmits (603) an SMS
call request together with a short message to a dispatch
controller located logically, and preferably physically, external
to the existing network. The SMS call request includes an ID of
the communication device and an address of the dispatch
controller. As described above, the dispatch controller utilizes
the communication device ID or the target address of the dispatch
controller contained in the SMS call request to determine the
communication network talk group and the associated talk group
members. Thus, either the ID of the communication device or the
address of the dispatch controller reads on Appellant’s claimed
group identifier. The communication device ID or a target
address is associated with a plurality of subscriber numbers,
associated talk group members. This is further buttressed by
Sanders’ teaching in column 10, lines 42 through 52, which states
that cellular telephone users can engage in dispatch or group
calls, or send short messages to a group of target users, with a
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