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               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               today was not written for publication and is not                       
               binding precedent of the Board.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. 19           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                        Ex parte JIE NI and RICHARD S. JENSEN                         
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2004-0180                                  
                             Application No. 09/124,642                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     
          Before KRASS, GROSS and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-19.                                                                
               The invention is directed to a system for synchronizing a              
          network link, best illustrated by reference to representative               
          independent claim 1, reproduced as follows:                                 
               1.  A method of synchronizing two ends of a bi-directional             
          network communication path comprising:                                      
                                         -1–                                          




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