Appeal No. 1997-1232
Application No. 08/182,035
In this Advisory Action, the Examiner indicated that claims
3-16 and 18-22 were objected to and that claim 24 was allowed.
Accordingly, this appeal involves only claims 1, 2, and 23. 2
The claimed invention relates to a method and system for
recovering timing information from a digital data signal.
More particularly, Appellant indicates at page 3 of the
specification that a periodic assessment of the data signal is
performed to determine the occurrence of a peak in a part of
the signal to thereby determine the suitability of that part
of the signal for providing timing information.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A method recovering timing information from a digital
data signal, said method comprising;
periodic assessment of the signal to determine the
suitability of a detected maximum or minimum signal value
within a part of the signal for providing timing information
and
2In the Status of Claims section on page 2 of the Appeal
Brief filed October 3, 1995, Appellant calls attention to the
fact that claims 15 and 16 are presumed to be allowed in view
of the rewriting of claim 15 in independent form in light of
the Examiner’s statement in the Office action dated October 7,
1994. The Examiner has confirmed Appellant’s statement of the
status of claims at page 1 of the Answer.
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