Ex Parte CHADDHA - Page 1



              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                        not binding precedent of the Board                          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. 38                  
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                    
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
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                                Ex parte NAVIN CHADDHA                              
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                                  Appeal No. 2004-2185                              
                             Application 08/855,245                                 
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                             ON BRIEF                                               
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         Before THOMAS, BARRETT and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.             
         THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                                                                   
                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                
              Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner's               
         final rejection of claims 1-23.  Representative claim 1 is                 
         reproduced below:                                                          
              1.  In a multimedia server having a processor and a memory,           
         said server coupled to at least one client computer via a                  
         network, a method for adaptively right-sizing multimedia data for          
         one or more multicast groups, said multimedia data including at            
         least one base layer and one or more enhancement layers additive           
         to said at least one base layer, said method comprising the steps          
         of:                                                                        

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