The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte RICHARD A. DIEDRICH and HARVEY G. KIEL __________ Appeal No. 1996-3273 Application 08/127,932 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-6, which constitute all the claims in the application. The disclosed invention pertains to a method in a distributed data processing system for the interchange of multimedia data and non-multimedia data between a plurality of receiving stations and a sending station. More particularly, 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007