Appeal No. 2006-2195 Page 6
Application No. 09/773,255
examiner asserts that the report is the control information provided by
Mobile Switching Center 165 or Base Station 160 where either Mobile
Switching Center 165 or Base Station 160 can monitor the signal strength
[id.]. The examiner notes that Dent’s system allows for optimal coordination
of high, medium, and low power signals between adjacent base stations as a
result of the signal strengths being monitored, sorted, and reordered in real-
time or dynamically according to priority (see col. 9, lines 13-19; col. 13,
lines 35-48; col. 16, lines 11-16 and 32-64) [id.]. The examiner notes that
Base Station 160 provides candidate cell information to the mobile unit (see
col. 20, line 39 through col. 21, line 6; fig. 12) [id.]. The examiner
concludes that each base station must have information reported,
transmitted, or received from each of the adjacent base stations in order to
provide the scheduling of timeslots between low and high interference [id.].
We begin by noting that the examiner relies upon three separate
sections of Dent as allegedly teaching the limitations disputed by appellants:
(a) col. 8, lines 29-37, (b) col. 16, lines 11-15 and 32-64, and (c) col. 20,
line 39 through col. 21, line 6 [see answer, page 10]. We agree with
appellants that these portions of the Dent reference are concerned with (a)
subtractive demodulation techniques [see col. 8, line 3], (b) “re-use
partitioning” techniques [see col. 16, line 58], and (c) handover techniques
that occur when a mobile phone leaves one cell coverage area and enters
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