Appeal No. 2001-0950
Application No. 08/534,855
(a) monitoring said communication stream for Temporary
Equipment Identifier (TEI) message blocks, said TEI message
blocks comprising TEI messages and a plurality of Forward Error
Correction (FEC)bits;
(b) determining a Base Error Rate (BER) by comparing known
bits of the communication stream with received bits of the
communication stream; and
(c) decoding said FEC bits only when said BER is above a
predetermined level.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Dahlin 5,199,031 Mar. 30, 1993
Stengel et al. 5,265,270 Nov. 23, 1993
(Stengel)
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1, 3, 19, 21, and 28-31 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Stengel.
Claims 2, 4-18, 20, and 22-27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Dahlin in view of Stengel.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants or the
Examiner, we make reference to the Brief1 and the Answer for the
respective details thereof.
1Appellants filed an appeal brief on September 21, 2000, Paper
No. 20. In response, the Examiner's Answer, Paper No. 21, was
mailed on November 16, 2000.
3
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