Application of John P. Mahony

LANE, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals which affirmed the rejection of method claims 19 and 20 in appellant’s application serial No. 243,203, for- “Synchronizing Circuit,” filed December 5, 1962. Apparatus claims have been allowed.

THE DISCLOSURE

Appellant’s application relates to data communication systems and more particularly to circuits and methods for automatically synchronizing a receiver of digital information, such as a digital computer. The smallest unit of information in binary form is conceptualized, in information theory, as a binary…