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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              today was not written for publication and is not                      
              binding precedent of the Board.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. 18           


                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                                                                   
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                                                                   
                   Ex parte DAVID L. GRAUMANN, THOMAS J. BARNES                     
         and JOHN J. BIELASZEWSKI                                                   
                                                                                   
                                Appeal No. 2004-0858                                
                             Application No. 09/747,709                             
                                                                                   
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                                                                   

         Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.            
         KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of              
         claims 1-10 and 12-14, 16, 17 and 19-24.                                   
              The invention is directed to characterizing the latency of            
         an audio channel of a computer.  In particular, a first and                
         second signal sample stream are created in an audio channel, the           
         presence of these sample streams is detected at a point in the             

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