Appeal No. 2001-1601
Application No. 08/404,406
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A wireless communications device for indoor
communications comprising:
a plurality of first antenna elements for receiving a
plurality of outbound signals on multiple receive antenna beams
pointing in both plural respective azimuthal and plural
respective elevational directions wherein each said outbound
signal is transmitted from a second plurality of antenna elements
on a different one of a plurality of outbound antenna beams, said
second antenna elements pointing in different azimuthal and
elevational directions to facilitate said indoor communications
in a multipath indoor environment; and
a first processor operatively connected to the first antenna
elements and responsive to said received outbound signals for
determining a suitable indoor communications path between at
least one of the first antenna elements and at least one of the
second antenna elements with respect to predetermined
communications conditions.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Graziano 4,128,740 Dec. 05, 1978
Vasile 5,089,823 Feb. 18, 1992
Freeburg 5,095,535 Mar. 10, 1992
Borras et al. (Borras) 5,303,240 Apr. 12, 1994
Harbin et al. (Harbin) 5,701,583 Dec. 23, 1997
Claims 1 through 5, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, and 29
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Freeburg in view of Harbin.
Claims 6 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Freeburg in view of Harbin and Borras.
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