Appeal No. 95-4131
Application No. 08/089,320
1. A method of operating a video communication system
comprising:
repetitively transmitting sequential video data defining a
video program organized into equal duration segments, each
segment comprising a fixed number of fields, in a fifo memory
having individual segment taps corresponding to said segments,
said video data including information identifying the beginning
and ending segments of said video program;
selecting a segment tap corresponding to the beginning of
said video program responsive to a viewer request;
supplying said video program from the selected segment tap
to a one segment-long resettable fifo memory having field taps
corresponding to said fields; and
supplying said video program to said viewer from one of said
field taps.
No references were relied on by the examiner.
Claims 1 through 8 stand rejected under the first paragraph
of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as being based upon a non-enabling disclosure.
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
According to the examiner (Answer, pages 3 and 4), the lack
of enablement rejection was instituted because:
Applicant has failed to adequately describe the
memory means (segment memory (12)) as shown in the
Figure which is a FIFO memory having the capability of
storing at all times an entire video program as stated
within the specification on page 2, lines 16-21.
Examiner is unaware of any presently available single
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