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III. The board issued an invitation to oral proceedings accompanied by a communication. In the communication the board commented that the appellant had not specified the documents on which the request for grant was based, but it was assumed that grant on the basis of the documents on which the appealed decision was based was requested; the appellant was invited to clarify the request. The board expressed the preliminary view that claims 1 and 5 as considered by the examining division did not comply with the provisions of Article 84 EPC, and insofar as they could be understood their subject-matter did not appear to involve an inventive step having regard to the disclosure of D1 and the common general knowledge as exemplified by:
into the proceedings. The board expressed the preliminary view that the subject-matter of claims 1 and 5 did not appear to involve an inventive step having regard to the disclosure of D4 and the common general knowledge as evidenced by D3.
The provision of communication services by means of a base station transmitting messages to and receiving messages from at least one mobile station in a GSM network is common general knowledge in the art, see D3, pages 94 and 95. D3 is a textbook which is the standard work on the GSM system and is considered to represent the common general knowledge in the mobile communication art before the claimed priority date.
The skilled person would understand that the software updates may implement protocol revisions and that by deactivating or deleting predetermined parts of the software only a subset of the software update, i.e. a specific protocol may be revised. Moreover, the skilled person would understand that software updates optimising the communication system may include software in conformance with the most recent protocol revisions. It is common general knowledge, as evidenced by D3, that the operator of a GSM system keeps record of mobile stations creating problems by means of specific lists stored in the Equipment Identity Register EIR, see D3, pages 74 and 107. A black list includes a list of IMEI codes of mobile stations that need to be barred and a grey list includes the IMEI codes of faulty mobile stations whose fault is not serious enough to justify complete barring but might be reported to the subscriber, see D3, page 591. Software patches may be required as corrective measures to reduce the effect of failure. Alternatively, the GSM system permits modifications of the configuration to be used to patch software errors to avoid going through dubious routines, see D3, page 583. This implies that in order to ensure the correct functioning of older models of mobile stations the use of a less recent protocol, i.e. software, might be appropriate.
Thus, in the board's view it follows from the disclosure of D4 in the light of the common general knowledge as evidenced by D3 that information identifying which mobile stations are restricted to using something less than the most recent protocol revision, said something being an earlier protocol revision or a subset of the most recent protocol revision, must be stored in the communication system and transmitted from the base station to at least one mobile station when an upgrade is undertaken.
It is furthermore common general knowledge in the art (see e.g. D3, pages 368 figure 6.19), that the transition between the idle mode and the dedicated mode of a mobile station at the beginning of each new connection is always triggered by the mobile station through a channel request message sent on a random access channel. Only when a signalling link layer has been established and an "initial message" sent on the new dedicated channel does the network know the identity of the mobile station. It is also common general knowledge in the art (see D3, pages 376 to 381), that mobile stations differ in many characteristics, such as their maximum transmission power and the services they may support. It is important that the infrastructure is aware of these characteristics when the mobile station sets up a connection. Because the user's equipment may be changed without the operator being informed, this indication must be given at the beginning of each new connection. This is the purpose of the mobile station "classmark" parameter which is sent in the initial channel request message in the GSM system. The classmark parameter includes inter alia information about a revision level, so that the infrastructure will know which level of upgrade is used by each mobile station.
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