JanOne Inc (JAN)

[Principian]

Objections to "Claim" 1:

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1. An apparatus comprising: an interval timer; a power control; a Short Message Service (SMS) packetizer; a geo-locator; a radio frequency (RF) communicator; and a controller and a memory, the memory comprising instructions for the controller to operate the interval timer cooperatively with the power control to cause a transition of the geo-locator from a sleep state to a wake state after a preset defined time interval, and to operate the geo-locator to receive signal strength levels and corresponding cell ids from a plurality of cellular base stations, and to operate the SMS packetizer to package the signal strength levels and the corresponding cell ids into a first outgoing SMS message, and to communicate the first outgoing SMS message to a preset address using the RF communicator.

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In the Telecom Industry we have what is called an SMS Center (SMSC). These are the Network Elements that handles all Text Messages. Your Mobile Phone is programmed with this "preset address" already. Your Text Messages end up on the First hop in what we call "Mobile Originated" SMS for your respective Service Provider (ie AT&T). These Network Elements then forward your "Text" thru a special network and then end up in the "Mobile Terminate" SMSC that serves the Cell Areas your phone is operating within. We also "Terminate" the Messages to special Application Servers such as those for things like American Idol "Text Voting" via Short Codes (numbers less than the 10 or 7 digits that represent phone numbers). Methods already exist to move SMS from a device to either another device or to a custom server such as what I stated above in American Idol in Text Message Voting.

Claim 1 should have been denied for the rule of not being Unique to the those that "Practice the Art". The Pre-set Address is a KNOWN Property in the same way like the "Legs of a Table".

And this is just for starters....