Appeal No. 1999-0003 Page 6
Application No. 08/642,742
partially decoding the data to provide data encoded in an
interim level encoding format that lies hierarchically above
the low level format and hierarchically below both the first
high level encoding format and a second high level format,
wherein the second high level format lies hierarchically above
the low level format and is different from the first high
level encoding format ....” Also, similarly, claims 15, 17,
and 19-21 specify, in pertinent part, the following
limitations: “[a] storage medium having stored thereon a
plurality of instructions for processing video data, wherein
the plurality of instructions, when executed by a processor,
cause the processor to perform the steps of (a) providing data
encoded in a first high level encoding format that lies
hierarchically above a low level format; (b) partially
decoding the data to provide data encoded in an interim level
encoding format that lies hierarchically above the low level
format and hierarchically below both the first high level
encoding format and a second high level format, wherein the
second high level format lies hierarchically above the low
level format and is different from the first high level
encoding format ....” Further, similarly, claims 22, 24, and
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