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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte PAUL CHOW, ALLEN J. PORTER, DAVID A. STRASSER,
ANTONIO ASARO, INDRA LAKSONO, and BILJANA D. SIMSIC
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Appeal No. 2001-0513
Application No. 09/096,550
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 23, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a method and apparatus for
decompressing compressed data, including video data that has been
compressed in accordance with the MPEG 2 standard. The process
involves retrieving components from a non-local memory at a rate
that is independent of the rate in which the components were
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