Ex parte LEVINE et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1995-4366                                       Page 2           
          Application No. 08/150,744                                                  


          Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134                 
          from the final rejection of claims 169-175 and 177-185.  We                 
          affirm-in-part.                                                             


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The invention at issue in this appeal relates to remote                
          control of a computer.  A user who is remote from the computer              
          first formats commands into facsimile image data.  He then                  
          employs a facsimile machine to transmit the data across a                   
          telephone line to another facsimile machine, which is                       
          collocated with the computer.  The collocated facsimile                     
          machine receives the data and extracts the commands.  In                    
          response thereto, the computer executes the commands.                       


               Claim 177, which is representative for our purposes,                   
          follows:                                                                    
               177.      A method of processing data comprising the                   
               steps of:                                                              







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