Appeal No. 1998-0498
Application No. 08/541,471
means for generating and sending data, video and audio
signals to said at least one other node and for receiving and
processing data, video and audio signals from said at least
one other node; and
means for grouping the video and audio signals into
video and audio frames, respectively, and for interleaving the
video and audio frames on a sequential one-to-one basis before
transmission to said at least one other node.
The following references are relied on by the examiner;
Tompkins et al. 4,710,917 Dec. 01, 1987
Hayden et al. 4,953,159 Aug. 28, 1990
Laycock 5,202,759 Apr. 13, 1993
(filing date, Jan. 24, 1992)
Nakayama et al. 5,280,583 Jan. 18, 1994
(filing date, Sep. 3, 1992)
Hosono et al. 5,392,165 Feb. 21, 1995
(filing date, Feb. 13, 1992)
All the claims on appeal earlier noted stand rejected
under 35 USC § 103. As to claims 3, 6, 10, 17, 21 and 25 the
examiner relies upon the combination of Tompkins, Laycock and
Hosono, further in view of Nakayama as to claims 7, 8, 19, 23,
26, 28-31 and 35. As to claims 11 and 16, the examiner relies
upon the combination of Tompkins and Laycock, with the
addition of Nakayama as to claim 14. Finally, the examiner
rejects claim 33 under 35 USC § 103 as being obvious over the
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