Appeal No. 2002-1236
Application No. 08/359,743
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a radio telephone system. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced
below.
1. A radio telephone system including a base station connected to a
wire circuit and a plurality of mobile stations which perform radio
communications with the base station, respectively, said radio telephone
system comprising:
a base station echo-back transmit-receive section provided in said
base station for transmitting echo-back request signals to said mobile
stations, respectively, located in a radio zone of said base station and for
receiving echo-back response signals transmitted from said mobile
stations; and
a mobile station echo-back transmit-receive section provided in
each of said mobile stations for transmitting one of the echo-back
response signals in response to a corresponding one of the echo-back
request signals transmitted from said base station, so that all the mobile
station echo-back transmit-receive sections of said mobile stations which
received one of the echo-back request signals from said base station
transmit the echo-back response signals to notify said base station of their
presence in said radio zone.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Boudreau et al. (Boudreau) 5,369,681 Nov. 29, 1994
Simpson et al. (Simpson) 5,475,863 Dec. 12, 1995
(filed Oct. 4, 1993)
Claims 1 and 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by
Boudreau. Claims 4-6, 8, and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
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