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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Group Art Unit:
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`Examiner:
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`Attorney Docket:
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`In re Application of:
`John C. Harvey and James W. Cuddihy:
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`Serial No.:
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`08/485,507
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`Filed:
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`June 7, 1995
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`For: SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS
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`Assistant Commissioner for Patents
`Washington, D.C. 20231
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`SUPPLEMENTAL AMENDMENT UNDER 37 C.F.R. § 1.115
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`Sir:
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`Applicants herewith submit the following Supplemental Amendment and
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`Remarks.
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`AMENDMENT
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`In the Claims:
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`Claim 3 has been amended. Claims 4~32 have been cancelled. Claim 3 remains
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`as the sole claim in the app\~n.
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`Please cancel claims 4-32 without prejudice.
`Please amend clai~ as follows:
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`(Twice Amended) A method of enabling a programming
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`presentation at a receiver station, said receiver station having a receiver for
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`receiving at least some of an information transmission, at least one enabling
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`device operatively connected to said receiver, a processor operatively connected
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`to said at least one enabling device, and an output device operatively connected
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`to said at least one enabling device, said method comprising the steps of:
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`receiving said information transmission from one of a local source and a
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`remote source, said information transmission containing disabled information;
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`detecting the presence of an instruct-to-enable signal, said instruct-to-
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`enable signal designating enabling information, wherein said enabling
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`information includes a second instruct-to-enable si~al;
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`passing said instruct-to-enable signal to said processor;
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`modifying a fashion in which said receiver station locates said enabling
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`information in response to said instruct-to-enable signal;
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`locating said enabling information based on said step of modifying a
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`fashion;
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`enabling said disabled information based on said step of locating said
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`enabling information; [and]
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`outputting said programming presentation based on said step of enabling
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`said disabled information: and
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`delivering at least some of said programming presentation at said output
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`device based on said second instruct-to-enable si~al.
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`REMARKS
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`II.
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`-Serial No. 08/485,507
`Docket No. 05634.0304
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`In consonance with the agreement between Applicants and the Office
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`regarding the co-pending U.S. patent applications related to this application,
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`Applicants hereby cancel claims 4-32. Claims corresponding to the claims
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`cancelled from the instant application have been added to App. Ser. No.
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`08/474,145, Atty. Dkt. No. 05634.0303. Applicants respectfully request that
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`further prosecution of the instant application be held in abeyance pending
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`further action in App. Ser. No. 08/474,145.
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`Date: May f. 2000
`HUNTON & WILLIAMS
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