Appeal No. 1998-1700
Application No. 08/268,460
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads
as follows:
1. A symbol timing recovery apparatus for sampling a
received signal containing symbols which is received in a
receiver of a high-speed data transmission system, and for
recovering a symbol timing of the received symbols, said
symbol timing apparatus comprising:
means for receiving the signal;
means for generating a sinusoidal wave based on said
received signal for recovering the symbol timing;
means for detecting a positive-going zero-crossing point
of the sinusoidal wave; and
means for generating a sampling clock to sample the
received signal based on a plurality of positive-going zero-
crossing points detected by said means for detecting a
positive-going zero-crossing point.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Tjahjadi et al. (Tjahjadi) 5,001,729 Mar. 19, 1991
Claims 1 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as being anticipated by Tjahjadi.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 18,
mailed April 29, 1997) and the Supplemental Examiner's Answer
(Paper No. 21, mailed October 16, 1997) for the examiner's
complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
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