Ex Parte Keane et al - Page 4




          Appeal No. 2003-2065                                                        
          Application 09/881,441                                                      





                              References                                              
               The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:               
               Lewis et al. (Lewis)          6,330,428      Dec. 11, 2001             
          (Filing date Dec. 23, 1998                                                  
               Petitcolas, F. A. P. et al. (Petitcolas) “Information Hiding           
          --A Survey” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no. 7, (July 1999),           
          pp. 1062-1078                                                               
               Tschudin, C. F. “Header hopping and packet mixers”                     
          Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computer               
          Communications and Networks, 2000 (Oct. 16-18, 2000), pp. 316-319           
                              Rejections at Issue                                     
               Claim 11 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being                
          anticipated by Lewis.  Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C.             
          § 103 as being unpatentable over Lewis.  Claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 8               
          through 10, 14 and 16 through 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.             
          § 103 as being unpatentable over Lewis in view of Tschudin.                 
          Claims 2, 5, 6, 12 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as           
          being unpatentable over Lewis, Tschudin and Petitcolas.                     








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