Appeal No. 96-2696
Application 08/167,415
underflow of data in a send buffer, which is not the purpose
of any of the codes cited by the examiner. Consequently, we 3
agree with appellants that Sun also fails to disclose or
suggest the claimed eliminating means coupled to a receiving
buffer to supply compressed image data to the receiving buffer
after eliminating such invalid code. We note that the
examiner (Answer at 7), in addressing appellants' argument
that the claim calls for eliminating the invalid code prior to
decoding of the compressed image data, characterized this
argument as inconsistent with the fact that the claim recites
decoding apparatus comprising an eliminating means for
eliminating invalid code. We do not agree. The fact that the
preamble recites decoding apparatus does not preclude the
claimed eliminating means from removing invalid code from the
compressed image data before it is decoded by the claimed
decoding means, which receives the compressed image data from
the claimed receiving buffer.
3While such codes are used in the admitted prior art
described in appellants' application, that prior art is not
relied on in any of the rejections before us.
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