Appeal No. 2002-1006
Application 09/132,351
simple press of a button or a combination of buttons on their
telephone.
Sanders also teaches in column 7, lines 4 through 21, that
the present invention facilitates dispatch or group short message
service. Upon receiving a call request and a short message, the
MSC 118 provides a call request and short message to the SMS
processor 120. The SMS processor 120 forwards the call request
and short message to dispatch controller 103, which, in turn,
establishes communication links between itself and target devices
107 through 110 of the originating communication talk group as
described above. Once the links are established, the dispatch
controller transmits the short message to target devices 107
through 110 via the SMS processor 120 and establishes the links
126 through 127, 129 through 130. Thus, we find that Sanders
teaches simultaneously transmitting said short message to each of
the plurality of called subscriber numbers by designating said
group identifier, as recited in Appellant’s claim 1. Therefore,
we have found that Sanders teaches all of the claimed elements
recited in Appellant’s claim 1.
Appellant further argues that the Examiner’s reasoning that
the ID of the communication device reads on the group identifier
defies logic. Appellant argues that the ID of the communication
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