Appeal No. 2002-1257
Application No. 08/913,523
transfer, not as a result of the time interval being assigned to
a specific station.
Although the Examiner’s remarks in the “Response to
Argument” portion at page 3 of the Answer suggest that in a
multiplex transmission system as described in Holland, a station
would inherently be assigned a transmission time slot, we find no
basis in the disclosure of Holland that would support such a
conclusion, let alone how such an interpretation would satisfy
the particular requirements set forth in claim 11. To the
contrary, our review of the disclosure of Holland reveals that
each of the transmission time frames, defined by the transfer
repetition rate R2, is not assigned to a specific channel but,
rather, contains “information from each of the communication
channels” (Holland, column 17, lines 30-31). Similarly, the open
time interval in Holland, rather than being assigned to a
specific channel, appears periodically as a result of the
differing repetition rates for sampling and data transfer
(Holland, column 17, lines 31-35, column 18, lines 38-55, and
Figure 11.
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