The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte ROBERT A. WIEDEMAN and PRASHANT V. WAKNIS ___________ Appeal No. 2006-0663 Application No. 09/841,862 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-7 and 14-20, which are all of the clams pending in this application. The claimed invention relates to a mobile satellite telecommunications system and method in which at least one user terminal, at least one earth orbiting satellite, and at least one gateway, are provided. In response to requests from particular applications, individual ones of a plurality of Quality of Service (QoS) modes for servicing different application requirements are selected with the user terminal and communicatedPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007