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`In re Patent Application of
`Alex Krister RAl’l‘H ct a1.
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`Application No: 09899371
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`Filed: September 21, 1999
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`For: MULTI-RATE
`RADIOCOMMUNICATION
`SYSTEMS AND TERMINALS
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`AMENDMENI
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`Assistant Commissioner for Patents
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`Washington, D.C. 20231
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`Sir:
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`In response to the Office Action issued on February 11, 2002, the Examiner's
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`approval is respectfully requested to amend the above-identified application as follows.
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`(Twice Amended) A communication station eompnsmg:
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`at least one first field in which payload information is disposed and providing at least one
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`second field, separate from said first field. which includes a service type identifier which
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`identifies a type of payload information provided in said at least one first field; and
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`a transmitter for transmitting information received from said processor
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`including said at least one first field and said at least one second fiel ___,________.=;_.,.'___
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`[N THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`In re Patent Application of
`Alex Krister RAl’l‘H ct a1.
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`Application No: 09899371
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`Filed: September 21, 1999
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`For: MULTI-RATE
`RADIOCOMMUNICATION
`SYSTEMS AND TERMINALS
`
`AMENDMENI
`
`Assistant Commissioner for Patents
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`Washington, D.C. 20231
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`Sir:
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`In response to the Office Action issued on February 11, 2002, the Examiner's
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`approval is respectfully requested to amend the above-identified application as follows.
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`Kindly replace claim 45 asfollows.
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`(Twice Amended) A communication station eompnsmg:
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`a processor for arranging information for transmission including providing
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`at least one first field in which payload information is disposed and providing at least one
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`second field, separate from said first field. which includes a service type identifier which
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`identifies a type of payload information provided in said at least one first field; and
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`a transmitter for transmitting information received from said processor
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`including said at least one first field and said at least one second fiel ___,________.=;_.,.'___
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`Application No. 991322771
`Attorney's Docket No. {Emmi-490
`Page 2
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`REMARKS
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`Reconsideration and allowance of the above-identified application are respectfully
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`requested. Claims 45-51 remain pending, wherein it is proposed to amend claim 45 and to
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`cancel claims 26-44 and 52-66. Entry of these amendments is appropriate because they
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`would not require further search and/or consideration.
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`Initially, Applicants would like to thank Examiner Duong for his time and courtesy
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`during the personal interview conducted with the undersigned on May 6, 2002. The
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`following discussion elaborates upon the issues discussed during the personal interview.
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`In the first and second paragraphs of the Office Action it is noted that non~elected '
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`claims 26—36 and 52-66 have not been canceled. Upon entry of the amendment above these
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`claims will‘be canceled thereby addressing this concern.
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`In the third paragraph of the Office Action claim 45 is objected to for minor
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`informalities.
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`It is proposed to amend claim 45 to address this informality. Accordingly,
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`entry of the amendment to claim 45 and withdrawal of this ground of objection is
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`respectfully requested.
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`It is respectfully submitted that the amendment to claim 45 does not
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`narrow the scope of coverage of this claim, or of any element of this claim.
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`In the fourth paragraph of the Office Action the proposed drawing changes filed on
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`November 21, 2001 have been approved. Accordingly, attached herewith is a submission
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`of Formal Drawings incorporating the approved drawing changes.
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`In the fifth paragraph of the Office Action claims 45-51 are rejected under 35
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`U.S.C. § 102(e) as allegedly being anticipated by U.S. Patent No. 5,757,813 to Raith
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`("Raith"). This ground of rejection is respectfully traversed.
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`Application No. {£899,771
`Attorney's Docket No.W
`Page 3
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`Prior to addressing this ground of rejection in detail, a brief description of the
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`present invention is presented to highlight advantageous characteristics thereof.
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`The present invention is directed to radiocommunications systems. and more
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`particularly to methods and apparatus for identifying the type of payload information in a
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`transmission payload. As commercial radiocommunications continues to grow. many other
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`types of information in addition to voice information are being transmitted using
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`radiocommunications systems. For example. in addition to voice information. video and
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`data Communications are being implemented in radiocommunications systems. Each of
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`these types of information has different transmission characteristics. for example. the
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`amount of channel coding required and the ability to tolerate delay. Accordingly, it would
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`be desirable to provide sufficient flexibility in radiocomrnunications systems for the variety
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`of information.
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`Due to the different transmission characteristics associated with the different types
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`of information, it would be desirable to provide an ability for a transmitter to be able to
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`inform a receiver of the type of information in a transmission payload. One conventional
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`technique foridentifying the type of information in a transmission payload is to employ call
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`control signaling over the Fast Associated Control Channel (FACCH) to identify which
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`type of instantaneous service is to be supported over the channel. One technique for
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`discriminating between different types of information in a transmission payload on a slot by
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`slot basis requires a mobile station to discriminate based upon the differences in channel
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`coding. Although discrimination based upon channel coding may be sufficient in systems
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`in which there are two different types of information possible in a transmission payload, as
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`Application No. 99399311
`Attorney's Docket No.W
`Page 4
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`the number of different types of information expands beyond two, the complexity of
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`discriminating between different types of information in this manner becomes excessive.
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`Accordingly, the present invention overcomes the above-identified and other
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`deficiencies of the prior art by employing a field which identifies the type of payload
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`information in another field.
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`In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
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`the fast out-of-band channel (FOC) can be employed to include a service type identifier to
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`identify the type of payload information in another field. By providing the service type ‘
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`identifier, the present invention overcomes the complexity required of discrimination based"
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`upon channel coding when more then two different types of information are employed 'in a
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`radiocommunications system.
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`Raith does not anticipate Applicants' claim 1 because Raith does not disclose or
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`suggest all of the elements of Applicants’ claim 45. For example. Raith does not disclose
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`or suggest a processor for "providing at least one second field. separate from said first
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`field, which includes a service type identifier which identifies the type of payload
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`information provided in said at least one first field" as recited in Applicants' claim 45.
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`Raith discloses a method for achieving optimal channel coding in a communication
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`system. Specifically, Raith discloses a method in which the reserved field or the
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`CSFP/PCF field can be provided with an indication bit for indicating the type of channel
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`coding being used in the data field. However, Raith does not disclose a service type
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`identifier which identifies a type ofpayload information. Moreover, there is nothing in
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`Raith which explicitly or inherently discloses that the type of channel coding being used in '
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`the data field identifies a type ofpayload information. Accordingly, Raith cannot disclose
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`Application No. 091322.17]
`Attorney's Docket No. {ELMO-490
`Page 5
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`a processor "providing at least one second field, separate from said first field, which '
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`includes a service type identifier which identifies a type‘of payload information provided in
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`said at least one first field" as recited in Applicants' claim 45.
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`In the Response to Arguments section of the Office Action it is asserted that since
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`the last paragraph on page 15 of the present application describes that the FCC field can
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`provide information regarding channel coding, that Raith's disclosure of identifying a type
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`of channel coding anticipates the "service type identifier which identifies the type of
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`payload information provided in said at leaSt one first field " recited in Applicants' claim
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`45. However, as discussed during the personal interview, this section of Applicants"
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`specification states that "the FOC can provide information regarding the type of service
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`which the associated payload is currently supporting, the channel coding and/or
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`interleaving associated therewith." (emphasis added). Accordingly, it is clear that the
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`FCC field can provide information regarding three different aspects of the transmission,
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`namely, 1)
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`type of service, 2) channel coding, and 3) interleaving. These different aspects
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`can be alternatives or they can all be indicated by the FCC field. However. Applicants'
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`claim 45 recites that "at least one second field...identifies the type of payload information. "
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`Accordingly, the plain language of this claim makes clear that Applicants are claiming the
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`use of a field to identify the type of payload information and not the type of channel
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`coding. Therefore,lit is respectfully submitted that a disclosure of the identification of the
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`type of channel coding does not anticipate the "at least one second field" which " identifies
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`the type of payload information" as recited in Applicants' claim 45.
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`Application No. 02/399,771
`Attorney‘s Docket No.W
`Page 6
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`During the personal interview, the Examiner discussed that Applicants'
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`specification, at page 15, lines 11-20. describes a prior system which employs
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`discrimination of channel coding to identify a type of transmission payload information.
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`and in view of Raith's disclosure of employing a field to identify the type of channel
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`coding, that the identification of channel coding would necessarily identify the type of
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`transmission payload information. However, Raith does not disclose. expressly or
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`inherently, that channel coding can be employed to identify a type of transmission payload
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`information. Accordingly. reliance upon the disclosure of prior systems in Applicants'
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`specification in combination with Raith is not proper as an anticipation rejection under 35
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`U .S.C. § 102 since the rejection requires a modification of the disclosure of Raith to
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`allegedly meet the elements of Applicants‘ claim 45.
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`Nevertheless, as discussed during the personal interview, the type of channel coding
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`may not necessarily identify the type of payload information.
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`In other words, each
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`different type of payload information may have more than one type of coding. and the
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`types of coding between these different types of payload information may overlap.
`Accordingly, it may not be possible identify the type of payload information 'hased upon an
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`indication of channel coding since the type of channel'coding identified may be employed
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`for different types of information. This argument is intended to illustrate that the
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`identification of the type of channel coding in Raith does not inherently identify the type of
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`payload information because the identification of channel coding does not necessarily
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`identify the type of payload information as would he required for a rejection based upon
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`inherency.
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`Application No. 09/329,771
`Attorney's Docket No.W
`Page 7
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`Since there is nothing in Raith which expressly or inherently discloses a processor
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`"providing at least one second field, separate from said~first field, which includes a service
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`type identifier which identifies a type of payload information provided in said at least one
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`first field" as recited in Applicants' claim 45, Raith cannot anticipate Applicants' claim 45.
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`Claims 46-51 depend from claim 45, and hence, these claims are patentably
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`distinguishable over Raith for at least those reasons stated above with regards to
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`Applicants' claim 45. For at least those reasons stated above, it is respectfully requested .
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`that the rejection of claims 45—51 as allegedly being anticipated by Raith be withdrawn
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`All outstanding objections and rejections having been addressed is respectfully
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`submitted that the present application is in condition for allowance. Notice to this affect is
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`respectfully requested. If there are any questions regarding this response or the application
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`in general, the Examiner's is encouraged to contact the undersigned at 703-838-6578.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`BURNS, DUANE, SWECKER & MATI-IIS, L.L.P.
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` p en W. Palan
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`Registration No. 43,420
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`PO. Box 1404
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`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1404
`(703) 836-6620
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`Date: May 10, 2002
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`Application No. 091329.771
`Attorney‘s Docket No. 040010-490
`Page 1
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`Marked-up Claim 45
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`45.
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`(Twice Amended) A communication station comprising:
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`a processor for arranging information for transmission including providing
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`at least one first field in which payload information is disposed and providing at [lest] least
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`one second field. separate from said first field, which includes a service type identifier
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`which identifies a type of payload information provided in said at least one first field; and
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`a transmitter for transmitting information received from said processor
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`including said at least one first field and said at lease one second field.
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