The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte Abraham P. Ittycheriah, Stephane H. Maes, and Jan Sedivy
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Appeal No. 2005-2282
Application No. 09/505,807
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ON BRIEF
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Before RUGGIERO, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
A patent examiner rejected claims 1 and 3-27. The appellants appeal therefrom
under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We affirm-in-part.
I. BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal manages the sharing of audio data between
speech technologies. In many speech/audio processing systems, explain the
appellants, audio data or processed speech data are stored in buffers for consumption
and processing by speech engines. They add that the conventional speech/audio
processing systems, however, typically do not include mechanism for managing the
consumption of data from the buffers. (Spec. at 1.)
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