Appeal No. 96-0309
Application 08/135,370
a multiplexer for generating a succession of
parcels, each parcel comprising a plurality of time
slots, at least one of said time slots including a
portion of said first sequence of parts, and
frequency dispersion means for distributing the
information content of two successive ones of said
parcels for simultaneous transmission as signals in time
multiplexed slots of at least two of said channels
respectively, said information content being transmitted
once only; and
another of said stations comprises a receiver
comprising:
means for receiving and demultiplexing said signals
in said time multiplexed slots of said at least two of
said channels, and
means for providing a replica of said first of said
information signals based on the received signals,
whereby, in said receiver, correction of burst
errors affecting the content of one channel is simplified
without need for redundant transmission.
No prior art is relied on in the rejection.
The specification stands objected to and claims 26-41
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, because
the examiner finds that the "means for encoding" and "means
for interleaving" of claims 26 and 39, and the "means for
deinterleaving and decoding" in claim 37, "are not disclosed
in the original disclosure" (Final Rejection, page 2).
"Therefore, the disclosure does not enable one skilled in the
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