Appeal 2007-1280
Application 10/894,950
the allowability of claim 18, if it is rewritten in independent form. We have
jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. §§ 6(b) and 134(a).
As best representative of the disclosed and claimed invention,
independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A satellite communication system comprising:
a plurality of network satellites forming a network; and
a gateway satellite disposed adjacent to and not part of the network,
said gateway satellite receiving a first optical signal from said network and
converting the signal to an electrical signal, said gateway satellite having a
first sorter and a reshaping circuit for reshaping the electrical signal to form
a reshaped electrical signal and retransmitting a second optical signal
corresponding to said reshaped electrical signal.
The following references are relied on by the Examiner:
Bloom US 5,710,652 Jan. 20, 1998
Harres US 6,128,112 Oct. 3, 2000
(Filed October 31, 1997)
Wiedeman US 6,160,994 Dec. 12, 2000
(Filed June 4, 1998)
Wedding US 6,295,152 B1 Sep. 25, 2001
(Filed December 11, 1998)
Lenormand US 6,545,787 B1 Apr. 8, 2003
(Filed April 15, 1999)
D. Grybos, “Technology for the Future Marketplace”, IEEE, pp. 5/1-
5/6, 1998.
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