Appeal No. 2004-1677
Application 09/028,726
stations 102 and 103. When a wireless terminal 124 is searching
for a base station on which to register, it consults an internal
list of base stations on which it is allowed to register. The
list of base stations is transmitted to wireless terminal 124 by
wireless switching network 101 when wireless terminal 124
registers on wireless switching system 101 and requests the list.
In a related embodiment, each base station may periodically
transmit the tenant identification number for which base station
is providing the service and which identifies the tenants on
whose base stations a wireless terminal may use. The tenant
identification number may be downloaded to the wireless terminal
when the wireless terminal first registers on wireless switching
system 101. See Fig. 1; col. 2, line 46, to col. 3, line 25.
Wireless terminal 124 meets the limitation of "one terminal
is arranged to favor at least one cell based on data specific to
that terminal" because it can register with base stations 112 and
113 of tenant 118 as well as base stations 102 and 103 of
tenant 121 based on data sent to the terminal from wireless
switching system 101, while wireless terminal 126 does not
contain this specific information. Accordingly, we sustain the
anticipation rejection of claims 1-4, 6, and 7.
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