Appeal No. 2005-2584
Application No. 09/897,331
connection provided from the HLR to MSC/VLR to BSC, see FIG. 2) and then forwarded
to the serving GPRS support node from the base station subsystem (e.g., via the only
connection from BSC to SGSN, see FIG. 2) (e.g. see col. 4, line 6-col. 5 line 10).”
We disagree with the examiner’s rationale. Initially we note that appellants’
argument that Haeggstrom does not teaching the claimed location server are not
convincing. The examiner asserts that Aarnio teaches the location server, and it
appears that Aarnio’s location server meets the definition of a location server asserted
by appellants on pages 9 through 15 of the brief. Nonetheless, we concur with the
appellants’ argument that claim 1 inherently imposes a specific order and that the
combination of the references does not teach the steps in the order. Specifically, we
find that claim 1 requires a location service message be transmitted from a location
server to a base station, from the base station to a serving GPRS support node and
from the GPRS support node to the mobile station. We find, as appellants admit, that
Aarnio teaches that the transmission to from the location server to the base station and
the base station to the mobile station. We concur with the appellants and examiner,
that Aarnio does not teach that the transmission is forwarded from the base station to
the serving GPRS, which then forwarded to the mobile station (appellants’ specification
identifies that this is forwarded from the GPRS to the mobile station through the Base
station see figure 1). Contrary, to the examiner’s assertions, we do not find that
Haeggstrom teaches a message must first be forwarded to the base station subsystem
from the location server and then forwarded to the serving GPRS support node from the
base station subsystem before being forwarded to the mobile station. The examiner
considers Haeggstrom’s Home Location Registry (HLR) to be a location server.
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