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`EXAMINER
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`JAMA, ISAAK R
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`ART UNIT
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`2617
`DATE MAILED: 10/13/2010
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`APPLICATION NO.
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`FILING DATE
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`FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
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`CONFIRMATION NO.
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`Charles L. Karr
`01/14/2008
`12/014,092
`TITLE OF INVENTION: MULTIPLE LOCATION ESTIMATORS FOR WIRELESS LOCATION
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`Charles L. Karr
`01/14/2008
`12/014,092
`TITLE OF INVENTION: MULTIPLE LOCATION ESTIMATORS FOR WIRELESS LOCATION
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`1003-6
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`9897
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`APPLN. TYPE
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`SMALL ENTITY
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`EXAMINER
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`JAMA, ISAAK R
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`ART UNIT
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`UNITED STA IBS p A IBNT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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`APPLICATION NO.
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`FILING DATE
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`FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`CONFIRMATION NO.
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`12/014,092
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`01/14/2008
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`Charles L. Karr
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`1003-6
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`9897
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`62914
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`10/13/2010
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`EXAMINER
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`JAMA, ISAAK R
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`ART UNIT
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`2617
`DATE MAILED: 10/13/2010
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`Notice of Allowability
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`Application No.
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`12/014,092
`Examiner
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`Applicant(s)
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`KARR ET AL.
`Art Unit
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`ISAAK R. JAMA
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`2617
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address-(cid:173)
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`1. IZI This communication is responsive to 0111412008.
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`Paper No./Mail Date 01/17/2008: 03/25/2008: 10/21/2008:
`02/24/2010
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`of Biological Material
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`Part of Paper No./Mail Date 20100924
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`Application/Control Number: 12/014,092
`Art Unit: 2617
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`1.
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`2.
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`3.
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`Claims 1 and 2 are allowed.
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`The following is an Examiner's statement of reasons for allowance:
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`The prior art made of record and relied upon by the Examiner fails to teach or
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`even suggest the following steps: "a method for locating a wireless station, including
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`receiving data from a plurality of wireless mobile stations, one of the wireless mobile
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`stations using measurements of wireless signals, wherein at least one of: (i) said
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`measurements and (ii) said wireless signals are transmitted between said one mobile
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`station and at least one of a plurality of fixed location communication stations, each
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`communication station capable of at least one of receiving wireless signals from, and
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`transmitting wireless signals to said one mobile station, comprising: receiving, from
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`each of at least first and second mobile station location estimators, corresponding first
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`and second information related to likely geographical approximations for a location of
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`said one mobile station, wherein: (a) for determining a likely geographical
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`approximation, GAA, for a location, LA, of a second of the mobile stations at a time TA,
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`said first location estimator generates GAA without requiring a prior likely geographical
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`location approximation generated by said second location estimator for locating the
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`second mobile station at substantially the location LA at substantially the time TA, and,
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`(b) for estimating a likely geographical approximation, GAs, for a location, Ls, of a third
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`one of the mobile stations at a time Ts, said second location estimator generates GAs
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`without requiring a prior likely geographical location approximation generated by said
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`first location estimator for locating the third mobile station at the location Ls at
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`substantially the time Ts; determining a resulting location estimate of said one mobile
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`station, wherein said step of determining includes at least one of the substeps (81)
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`through (82) following: (8 1) when said first and second information include,
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`respectively, first and second likely geographical approximations, combining said first
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`and second likely geographical approximations so that said resulting location estimate is
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`dependent on each of said first and second location likely geographical approximations;
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`and (82) selecting one of said first and second information for receiving preference in
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`determining said resulting location, wherein said selecting is dependent upon location
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`related data in at least one of said first and second information" recited in claim 1.
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`4.
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`Claim 2 is dependent on allowed base claim 1, therefore, claim is also allowed by
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`virtue of its dependence.
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`Conclusion
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`273-8300.
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