Appeal No. 2002-1326
Application 09/152,759
The examiner responds that the combination of Dent and
Merakos clearly teaches the simultaneous transmission of voice
and non-voice data over a single dedicated radio frequency
channel in a manner that permits the voice and data to be
processed as a single transmitted unit as claimed and cites to
portions of Dent and Merakos for support [answer, pages 8-9].
Although we agree with the examiner that the combination
of Dent and Merakos teaches the transmission of both voice and
data to a mobile unit in a wireless communications network, we do
not agree with the examiner’s position that the applied prior art
teaches the broadening and linking steps of claim 1.
Specifically, we are unable to find support in the applied prior
art for the concept of broadening the primary bandwidth to
include a primary time interval and an adjacent secondary time
interval so that the data can be processed as a single
transmitted unit. We have carefully reviewed the teachings of
Merakos and Dent, but we are unable to find support for the
findings and conclusions reached by the examiner. While the
applied prior art can support the concept of sending voice and
data signals to a mobile unit, the prior art does not teach or
suggest using adjacent time intervals in a manner that permits
the voice and non-voice data to be processed as a single
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