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`A shortened statutory period for response to this action is set to expire ___§ rnonth(s), T"-FT days from the date of this letter.
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`Failure to respond within the period for response will cause the application to become abandoned. 35 U.S.C. 133
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`Part I THE FOLLOWING ATTACHMENTS) AFIE PART OF THIS ACTION:
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`1. 8 Notice of References Cited by Examiner. PTO-892.
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`Notice of Art Cited by Applicant, PTO-1449.
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`5. [I information on How to Effect Drawing Changes. PTO-1474.
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`4. I:I Notice of informal Patent Application, PTO-152.
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`1.KI/C|flms
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`01 the above. claims
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`2. D Claims have been cancelled.
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`7. I] This application has been filed with Informal drawings under 37 C.F.R. 1.85 which are acceptable for examination purposes.
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`8. D Fonnai drawings are required in response to this Office action.
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`are Elacoeptablez El not acceptable (see explanation or Notice of Drattsman's Patent Drawing Review, PTO-948).
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`10. D The proposed additional or substitute sheetis) ct drawings, filed on
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`examiner; El disapproved by the examiner (see explanation).
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`11. D The proposed drawing correction. filed ____,______. has been El approved: El disapproved (see explanation)-
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`12. D Acknowledgement is made of the claim tor priority under 35 U.S.C. 119. The certitled copy has El been received E] not been received
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`13. [I Since this application apppears to be In condition for allowance except for formal matters. prosecution as to the merits is closed in
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`accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quayle. 1935 C.D. 1* ; 453 0.G. 213.
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`Claims 43-44 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
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`indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
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`Note that claim 43 is dependent upon itself, hence, the various elements recited in
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`claim 43 lack clear antecedent basis.
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. § 103 which forms the basis for all
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`A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or
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`described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject
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`matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a
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`whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having
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`ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not
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`be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.
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`Subject matter developed by another person, which qualifies as prior art only under
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`subsection (t) or (g) of section 102 of this title, shall not preclude patentability under
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`this section where the subject matter and the claimed invention were, at the time the
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`invention was made, owned by the same person or subject to an obligation of
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`Claims 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, and 32 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
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`over Natarajan et al.
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`Natarajan et a1 disclose a wireless communication system including a plurality of
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`transceivers (communicators) including battery powering mobile stations and fixed base
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`stations which transmit in accordance with a scheduled access protocol which incorporates a
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`battery saving function. The scheduled access protocol turns on receivers only for their
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`scheduled receive period and turns on transmitters only for their scheduled transmit period,
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`otherwise the transmitter and receivers are powered down for periods between the scheduled
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`periods respectively. Natarajan et al does not explicitly disclose the designation of one of the
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`communicators as a hub but this would have been obvious in view of the base station
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`disclosed by Natarajan et al wherein the base station acts a hub and mobile stations in range
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`of the base station consider the base station as a hub and hence implicitly select or designate
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`the base station as the hub station to which the mobile station is in communication with.
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`See col 6., lines 16-38, the base station or hub broadcast messages allocating
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`communication opportunities for the current frame hence assigning transmission opportunities
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`See col. 5, lines 60-65, the mobile stations (remotes) transmit request frames during
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`The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's
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`The prior art cited disclose battery conservation techniques for use in wireless
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`(See Manual of Patent Examining Egocedure, section 707.05 (a).)
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