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To: Chris Sholler who wrote (7739)	1/7/1998 2:32:00 AM
From: Fred Mah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13925

Chris S., concerning patents.... You listed "#5,698,807(issued 12/16/97), #5,698,803 (issued 12/16/97) and #5,111,727 (issued 5/12/97)" I'm not sure you mean 5,111,727 since it was issued in 1992? The only one of interest of the three would be #5,698,803. This is about a cache system for playback of digital audio as it pertains to wavetable synthesis. This wouldn't necessarily affect anything concerning PCI audio, since playback of pure digital audio doesn't need a cache. It may affect wavetable playback methods used by others , but it may well depend on the details of the cache system. I haven't looked at it yet. Nvidia's patent 5680592 is more applicable to PCI audio from an ISA legacy standpoint. They were the first with a commerical PCI based card that provided digital audio and wavetable + FM synthesis.

To: Chris Sholler who wrote (7739)	1/7/1998 8:53:00 AM
From: Rutgers	Respond to of 13925

Creative's New Patents: The Cat is Out of the Hat The Dow did not shine. It was too crazy to play. So we stayed out of the market on those cold, cold, down days. I sat there with Sim. We sat there, we two. And I said, how I wish Creative had some patents to do. Too wet to go out and too cold to play ball, so we sat in headquarters and did nothing at all. All we could do was to sit, sit, sit and I did not like it, one little bit! And then on December 16th, the Patent Office said OKAY! How this OKAY made us cry YEAH! We looked. And we saw them pop up on our screen. We looked and we saw them, two new patents all finalized and $green$.