Appeal No. 2003-2038 Application 09/288,833 generating a reproduction of said program source based at least upon the decoding of the data packets buffered in said second receive buffer before said first buffering delay has elapsed, and based at least upon the decoding of the data packets buffered in said first receive buffer after said first buffering delay has elapsed. References The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows: Cellario et al. (Cellario) 6,108,626 Aug. 22, 2000 (filed May 14, 1998) Goyal et al. (Goyal) 6,345,125 Feb. 5, 2002 (filed Feb. 25, 1998) Adams 0,695,094 Jan. 31, 1996 (European Patent Application) Orchard et al. (Orchard), “Redundancy Rate-Distortion Analysis of Multiple Description Coding Using Pairwise Correlating Transforms,” IEEE, 1997 Rejections at Issue Claims 1, 3 through 7, 9 through 11, 13 through 17, 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Adams in view of Cellario. Claims 2 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Adams in view of Cellario and Goyal. Claims 8 and 18 stand rejected under 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007