The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 13 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte RENE J. GLAISE, FRANCOIS KERMAREC, ERIC LALLEMAND, TAN PHAM, HANS R. SCHINDLER, _____________ Appeal No. 2000-0372 Application No. 08/421,338 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, BARRETT and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-10. The examiner withdrew the rejection of claim 5. The invention is directed to a swapping function. More particularly, the invention is used in communication systems wherein input values are headers of data streams 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007