Appeal No. 1999-2050 Page 3
Application No. 08/576,544
Claim 1, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
1. A method of interleaving a digital signal in
which samples are delayed by an integral number
times a unit delay, in accordance with a cyclically
repeated delay pattern, comprising the following
steps:
cyclically activating parallel-arranged select
lines of a memory at a cycle rate which is equal to
the unit delay;
writing to the memory, during one activation of
a select line, a relevant bit of each sample to be
delayed in an integral number of sample groups, a
sample group being associated with one delay pattern
cycle; and
reading from the memory, during the one
activation of the select line, which data includes a
number of bits equal to the number of bits which is
written, the bits being read in accordance with the
delay pattern.
The reference relied on in rejecting the claims follows:
Ben-Efraim et al. 5,592,492 Jan. 7, 1997
(Ben-Efraim) (filed May 13, 1994).
Claims 1-7 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by Ben-Efraim. Claim 8 stands rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 2, as indefinite. Rather than repeat the
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