Appeal No. 2004-1561
Application No. 09/631,474
station controller 20 generates a downlink message of a
predetermined length, and it comprises a base station/cascaded
unit identifier that corresponds to a designated base
station/cascaded unit (i.e., headers H0 through H2 for base
stations 30 through 32, respectively) (Figure 9; column 3, line
54 through column 4, line 4; column 12, lines 17 through 30;
column 13, lines 4 through 17; column 15, lines 26 through 37;
column 19, lines 11 through 16) and control information (i.e.,
control time slot TS) (Figure 9; column 5, lines 20 through 27;
column 10, lines 38 through 48). Ishii sends a downlink message
(column 11, lines 15 and 16; column 13, lines 40 through 46) to
the designated base station/cascaded unit using a common/shared
control channel over a time-multiplexed communications link
60 through 62 (Figures 4 through 8; column 5, lines 20 and 21;
column 10, lines 50 through 58; column 20, lines 1 through 11).
The common control channel comprises a plurality of consecutive
timeslots of a time-multiplexed frame structure of the
multiplexed signal transmitted and received through the shared
communications link 60 (Figures 4 and 9; column 8, lines
11 through 14; column 5, lines 20 through 27; column 10, lines
33 through 49; column 20, lines 1 through 11). Ishii
specifically states (column 10, lines 38 through 44) that in the
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