Appeal No. 2004-1677
Application 09/028,726
when the wireless terminal registers on the wireless
switching system (see col. 3, lines 1-45) meets the claimed
limitation of 'at least one terminal is arranged to favor at
least one cell based on data specific to that terminal
stored in and received from the network'. Examiner
maintains that, at the time the terminal consults the
internal list, that list is specific to that terminal and
includes tenant identification numbers identifying tenants'
whose base stations a mobile station is allowed to or can
use.... [T]he feature of 'terminal-specific' meaning that
'the information has been created with only that specific
terminal in mind' are [sic] not recited in the claims.
Appellant replies (RBr1): "[T]he list of Chavez would be
exactly the same for each mobile station (or wireless terminal)
assigned to the tenant in question. Thus, such an internal list
is not terminal-specific."
Thus, appellant interprets the limitation of "data specific
to that terminal" to mean that the information has been created
with only that one specific terminal in mind, whereas the
examiner states that this is not claimed and interprets that
"data specific to that terminal" does not preclude the data from
being specific to other terminals as well. Appellant does not
dispute that Chavez meets the limitations of independent
claims 1, 4, and 6 if the examiner's interpretation is correct.
We conclude that the examiner's claim interpretation is
reasonable. The limitation of "at least one terminal is arranged
to favor at least one cell based on data specific to that
terminal" does not contain any special terms that are defined in
the specification and so must be given its broadest reasonable
interpretation. The limitation "data specific to that terminal"
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