Ex Parte DEJACO et al - Page 1




               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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                          

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