United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 12 February 2002

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage
application with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of
the application without the signature of the inventors. The petition
has been granted. A notice has been sent to the last known address of
the non-signing inventor. The inventor whose signature is missing
(Jerome Duplaix) may join in the application by promptly filing an
appropriate oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63. The
international application number is PCT/CA99/01012 and was filed on 30
October 1999 in the names of Gilbert Moineau and Jerome Duplaix for the
invention entitled DNS RELAY MODULE IN A DIGITAL NETWORK MODEM. The
national stage number is 09/830,477 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 23
October 2001.