Appeal 2007-0869
Application 10/648,587
INVENTION
The invention is directed to a wireless GPS device for vehicles. The
device includes both a GPS unit and a Bluetooth unit. The device contains
only one reference oscillator which is used by both the GPS unit and the
Bluetooth unit. See pages 3 and 4 of Appellants’ Specification. Claim 8
representative of the invention and reproduced below:
8. A module, comprising:
a module housing;
a GPS receiver in the module housing and receiving position
information;
a wireless transceiver in the module housing and
communicating with the GPS receiver for transmitting information
received from the GPS receiver; and
one and only one reference oscillator in the housing providing
mixing signals to the GPS receiver and the wireless transceiver, the
GPS receiver and wireless transceiver not sharing any components
other than the reference oscillator.
REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
McCarthy US 6,477,464 B2 Nov. 5, 2002
Peterzell US 2003/0040292 A1 Feb. 27, 2003
Schofield US 6,690,268 B2 Feb. 10, 2004
(filed Jan. 10, 2002)
“BlueCoreTM 01b, Single Chip Bluetooth Device, Product Data Sheet
for BC01b-USB, Production Information, Jul. 2001, pp. 1-15.
“BlueCoreTM 2-ROM, Single Chip Bluetooth® System, Production
Information Data Sheet for BC213143A, Cambridge Silicone Radio,
Aug. 2005.
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