Appeal No. 97-2757
Application No. 08/412,260
data and noise” (Brief, page 5), and that the Norman patent
does not generate a random noise assessment that the digital
signal comprises “solely random noise” (Brief, page 6), the
examiner states (Answer, pages 4 and 5) that:
In response to the first argument, the start
pulse is part of the data. “Each train of pulse[s]
typically includes a start pulse [12] followed by a
series of data pulses [14]” (column 2, lines 31-
37)[.] Thus, the comparison is between the data and
the noise.
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