Appeal No. 2003-2038
Application 09/288,833
respectively. See page 7 of Appellants’ specification.
Selection processor 24 selects either the output of decoder 21 or
the output of decoder 22. The output of decoder 22 is initially
selected by selection processor 24. After the time period delay
provided by delay element 14 has elapsed and once delay n1 has
elapsed, the output of decoder 21 is selected. See page 8 of
Appellants’ specification.
Appellants’ claim 1 is representative of Appellants’
claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of processing two or more sequences of
data packets received from a network, each of said sequences of
data packets representing a common program source, the method
comprising the steps of:
buffering data packets comprised in a
first one of said sequences in a first
receive buffer having a first buffering
delay;
buffering data packets comprised in a
second one of said sequences in a second
receive buffer having a second buffering
delay, wherein said second buffering delay
is smaller then said first buffering delay;
decoding the data packets buffered in said
second receive buffer after said second
buffering delay has elapsed;
decoding the data packets buffered in said
first receive buffer after said first
buffering delay has elapsed;
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