Appeal No. 2003-1523 Application 09/432,426 encoding based on channel status information indicating an "error profile" of the communications channel. Thus, Watanabe does not render obvious the subject matter of claim 31. The rejection of claim 31 is reversed. CONCLUSION The rejection of claims 1 and 31 is reversed. REVERSED LEE E. BARRETT ) Administrative Patent Judge ) ) )) BOARD OF PATENT ANITA PELLMAN GROSS ) APPEALS Administrative Patent Judge ) AND ) INTERFERENCES ) ) HOWARD B. BLANKENSHIP ) Administrative Patent Judge ) - 7 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007