Appeal No. 2004-0925
Application 09/204,734
The appellant argues that “Bruckert instructs that estimates
are formed at step 259 which are used to form weighting
coefficients at step 261, and that are later used to weight
traffic channels. Bruckert does not describe or suggest either a
scaling of pilot despread values, or performing such scaling
before estimating channel responses, as recited in Claim 1"
(brief, page 6). The estimates that Bruckert obtains at step 259
are pilot signal estimates (col. 9, lines 26-35). Bruckert’s
step (261) of multiplying the pilot despread values by Yj and
using the results to produce complex weighting coefficients
(col. 9, lines 39-65) corresponds to the appellant’s steps of
scaling pilot despread values by scale factors to form scaled
pilot despread values and estimating channel responses using the
scaled pilot despread values to produce channel coefficient
estimates.
For the above reasons, we find that the method claimed in
the appellant’s claim 1 is anticipated by Bruckert. Accordingly,
we affirm the rejection of that claim and claims 5, 7-9, 12, 16,
18-20, 23, 27 and 29-31 that stand or fall therewith.
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