The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 26 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte ANDREW P. DEJACO, RICHARD P. WALTERS and HARINATH GARUDADRI Appeal No. 2004-0847 Application No. 09/246,412 ON BRIEF Before KIMLIN, GROSS and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges. KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-30. Claim 11 is illustrative: 11. A method of testing and training a speech recognizer, comprising the steps of: storing a plurality of voiced utterances; and testing the speech recognizer, by: receiving a prompt for a first operation from the speech recognizer, responding to the prompt for the first operation with a first selection, providing an audio input to the speech recognizer corresponding to the first selection, and -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007