Appeal No. 2003-2065 Application 09/881,441 References The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows: Lewis et al. (Lewis) 6,330,428 Dec. 11, 2001 (Filing date Dec. 23, 1998 Petitcolas, F. A. P. et al. (Petitcolas) “Information Hiding --A Survey” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no. 7, (July 1999), pp. 1062-1078 Tschudin, C. F. “Header hopping and packet mixers” Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 2000 (Oct. 16-18, 2000), pp. 316-319 Rejections at Issue Claim 11 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Lewis. Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Lewis. Claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 through 10, 14 and 16 through 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Lewis in view of Tschudin. Claims 2, 5, 6, 12 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Lewis, Tschudin and Petitcolas. 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007