The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007