Appeal No. 2004-1597
Application No. 09/383,889
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to data compression systems
and methods in which data is transformed prior to compression in
a manner that optimizes the applied compression techniques.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for improving compression of a stream of data
comprising:
transforming the data in accordance with a schema; and
compressing the transformed data.
The following reference is relied on by the Examiner:
Breternitz, Jr. et al. 6,216,213 Apr. 10, 2001
(Breternitz) (filed Jun. 7, 1996)
Claims 1-5 and 7-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
as being anticipated by Breternitz.2
We make reference to the final Office action (Paper No. 6,
mailed April 19, 2002) and to the answer (Paper No. 14, mailed
September 8, 2003) for the Examiner’s reasoning, and to the brief
(Paper No. 13, filed July 23, 2003) for Appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
2 The rejection of Claim 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Breternitz and Houldings is withdrawn by the Examiner
(answer, page 8).
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