Ex Parte DOWELL et al - Page 3




            Appeal No. 2002-1777                                                          Page 3              
            Application No. 08/953,219                                                                        


            throughout the image instead of concentrated in areas.  Fill-in techniques from the               
            surrounding pixels are used to improve the perceived image quality further.  (Id.)                


                   A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following          
            claims:                                                                                           
                         1. A method of configuring data, comprising, reorganizing a plurality                
                   of data sections into a reversible pattern of reorganized data, for at least               
                   one of the data sections that is reorganized, the reorganizing of the data                 
                   section being performed independent of a temporal decoding relationship                    
                   with any of the other data sections, compressing the data sections into a                  
                   plurality of compressed segments that can be independently                                 
                   decompressed from one another, and maintaining segment location                            
                   information identifying the locations of the compressed segments.                          
                         28. A method of configuring data, comprising, compressing the data into              
                   compressed segments that can be independently decompressed from one                        
                   another, packetizing the compressed segments into packets for transmission,                
                   writing selected segment location information into a selected packet by                    
                   identifying first and last segments in the selected packet, and writing the                
                   segment location information into a location in the selected packet that is                
                   separate from the first and last segments.                                                 
                   Claims 1-4, 6-17, and 21-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as                     
            anticipated by U.S. Patent No. 5,1503,012 ("Sotheran").  Claims 5 and 18 -20 stand                
            rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Sotheran and U.S. Patent                        
            No. 4,835,607 ("Keith").                                                                          












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