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`UTILITY
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`PATENT APPLICATION
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`TRANSMITTAL
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`Attorney Docket No.
`First Inventor
`Title
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`87790-837121 (0001 60US)
`I Racz, Patrick
`I DATA STORAGE AND ACCESS
`SYSTEMS
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`(Only for new nonprovisional applications under 37 CFR 1.53(b))
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`Express Mail Label No.
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`APPLICATION ELEMENTS
`See MPEP chapter 600 concerning utility patent application contents.
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`ADDRESS TO.‘
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`Commissioner for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`1. D Fee Transmittal Form (e.g., PTOISBI17)
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`ACCOMPANYING APPLICATION PARTS
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`2. IXI Applicant claims small entity status.
`See 37 CFR 1.27.
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`50
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`3. IXI Specification
`Both the claims and abstract must start on a new page
`(For information on the preferred arrangement, see MPEP 608.01(a))
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`4.|X| Drawing(s) (35 u.s.c.113)
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`[Totalsheets
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`17
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`[Total Sheets
`5. Oath or Declaration
`a. D Newly executed (original or copy)
`b. IE A copy from a prior application (37 CFR 1.63 (d))
`(for a continuation/divisional with Box 18 completed)
`i. D DELETION OF |NVENTOR(S[
`Signed statement attached deleting inventor(s)
`named in the prior application, see 37 CFR
`1.63(d)(2) and 1.33(b).
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`9. D Assignment Papers (copy of previously recorded assignment)
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`Name of Assignee
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`37 CFR 3.73(b) Statement
`(when there is an assignee)
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`IXI Power of
`Attorney
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`English Translation Document (if applicable)
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`Information Disclosure Statement (PTOISB/08 or PTO~1449)
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`I:I Copies of citations attached
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`6. IXI Application Data Sheet. See 37 CFR 1.76
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`Preliminary Amendment
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`7. D CD-ROM or CD-R in duplicate, large table or
`Computer Program (Appendix)
`D Landscape Table on CD
`8. Nucleotide andlor Amino Acid Sequence Submission
`(if applicable, items a. - c. are required)
`a. D Computer Readable Form (CRF),
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`Specification Sequence Listing on:
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`Return Receipt Postcard (MPEP 503)
`(Should be specifically itemized)
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`Certified Copy of Priority Document(s)
`(if foreign priority is claimed)
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`16. D Nonpublication Request under 35 U.S.C. 122 (b)(2)(B)(i).
`Applicant must attach form PTO/SB/35 or equivalent.
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`I:I CD—ROM or CD-R (2 copies); or
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`ii. I:I Paper
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`17. D Other:
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`c. D Statements verifying identity of above copies
`18. If a CONTINUING APPLICATION, check appropriate box, and supply the requisite information below and in the first sentence of the
`specification following the title, or in an Application Data Sheet under 37 CFR 1. 76:
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`IE Continuation
`Prior application information:
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`I:I Divisional
`CI continuation-in-pan (CIP)
`Examiner THIEN MINH LE
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`or prior application No: .12.-/_212.9_47____________ ._
`An‘ Unit: 2887
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`19. CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
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`The address associated with Customer Number:
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`I:I Correspondence address below
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`State
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`Telephone
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`éfiwbwmzi/<1.,¢La.
`Babak Kusha
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`April 3, 2012
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`64087665 v1
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`Apple Exhibit 1009
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`Page 00001
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`Apple Exhibit 1009
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`Application Data Sheet
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`Application Information
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`Application number::
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`Filing Date::
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`Application Type::
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`Subject Matter::
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`Suggested classification::
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`Suggested Group Art Unit::
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`CD—ROM or CD—R??::
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`Number of CD disks::
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`Number of copies of CDs::
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`Sequence Submission:
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`Regular
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`Utility
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`Computer Readable Form (CRF)?::
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`Number of copies of CRF::
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`Tit|e::
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`Data Storage and Access Systems
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`Attorney Docket Number:
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`87790-837121 (OOO16OUS)
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`Request for Early Publication:
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`Request for Non—Pub|ication::
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`Suggested Drawing Figure::
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`Total Drawing Sheetszz
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`Small Entity?::
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`Latin name::
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`No
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`No
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`Yes
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`Variety denomination namez:
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`Petition included?::
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`No
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`Petition Type::
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`Licensed US Govt. Agency::
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`Contract or Grant Numbers Onez:
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`Secrecy Order in Parent Appl.::
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`No
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`Applicant Information
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`Applicant Authority Type::
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`lnventor
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`Primary Citizenship Country::
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`United Kingdom
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`Status::
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`Given Name:
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`Middle Name::
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`Family Name:
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`Name Suffix:
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`Full Capacity
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`Patrick
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`Racz
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`City of Residence:
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`Saint Heller
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`State or Province of Residence::
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`Jersey
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`Country of Residence::
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`United Kingdom
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`Street of Mailing Address::
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`19 Royal Street
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`City of Mailing Address::
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`Saint Heller
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`State or Province of mailing address:
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`Jersey
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`Country of mailing address::
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`United Kingdom
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`Postal or Zip Code of mailing address::
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`JE1 4WA
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`Applicant Authority Type::
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`Primary Citizenship Country:
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`Status:
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`Given Name:
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`Middle Name::
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`Family Name::
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`Inventor
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`Netherlands
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`Full Capacity
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`Hermen—ard
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`Hulst
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`City of Residence::
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`Amsterdam
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`State or Province of Residence::
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`Country of Residence::
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`Netherlands
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`Street of Mailing Address::
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`Van Tuyll van Seroosken/veg 75hs
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`City of Mailing Address:
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`Amsterdam
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`State or Province of mailing address::
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`Country of mailing address:
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`Netherlands
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`Postal or Zip Code of mailing address: 1076 JG
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`Correspondence Information
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`Correspondence Customer Number:
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`20350
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`Representative Information
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`Representative Customer Number::
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`20350
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`Domestic Priority Information
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`Application:
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`Continuity Type::
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`Parent Appiication::
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`Parent Filing Date::
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`This Application is a Continuation of
`13/212,047
`Continuation of
`12/943,872
`Continuation of
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`12/014,558
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`11/336,758
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`Continuation of
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`Continuation of
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`13/212,047
`12/943,872
`12/014,558
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`11/336,758
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`10/111,716
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`08/17/11
`11/10/10
`01/15/08
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`01/19/06
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`09/17/02
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`Foreign Priority Information
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`Country::
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`PCT
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`United Kingdom
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`Application number::
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`Filing Date::
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`GB00104110
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`9925227.2
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`10/25/00
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`10/25/99
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`Assignee Information
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`Assignee Name::
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`Smartflash Technologies Limited
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`Street of mailing address:
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`1070908 Palm Grove House, P.O. Box 438
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`City of mailing address::
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`Wickhams’ Cay, Road Town
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`State or Province of mailing address:
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`Tortola
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`Country of mailing address::
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`British Virgin Islands
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`Postal or Zip Code of mailing address:
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`—
`INFORMATION DISCLOSURE—
`STATEMENT BY APPLICANT
`Racz, Patrick
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` T
`
`Examiner
`Initials‘
`
`Cite
`No.‘
`
`Document Number
`
`U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
`Publication Date
`Name of Patentee or
`MM-DD—YYYY
`Applicant of Cited Document
`
`Pages, Columns, Lines, Where
`Relevant Passages or Relevant
`F'9”'°‘ App”
`
`Number Kind code""”‘"°”'"’
`Aasheim et al.
`AA US 2003/0153594
`8/28/2003
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`US 2003/0168515A1
`9/11/2003
`Gra_y__
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`US 2006/0179211
`8/10/2006
`Aasheim et al.
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`us zoos/omsvo we/zoos T
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`A5 US 2007/0162300
`7/12/2oo7
`Roever et al.
`US 2008/0041938
`2/21/2008
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`US 2008/0314974
`12/25/2008
`Hulst et al.
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`US 4,341,951
`US 4,341,951
`US 4,697,073
`US 5,148,432
`US 5,226,145
`US 5,226,145
`US 5,367,150
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`9/29/1987
`9/15/1992
`7/6/1993
`7/6/1993
`11/22/1994
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`Benton
`Benton
`Hara
`Gordon et al.
`Moronaa et al.
`Moronaa et al.
`Kitta et al.
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`Akhteruzzaman et al.
`Dolhin
`Konno et al.
`Leroux
`Dolhin
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`Yokozawa et al.
`Teicher
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`A0 US 5,406,619
`AP US 5,457,746
`AQ US 5,532,466
`AR US 5,588,146
`us 5,677,953
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`US 5,740 369
`US 5,744,787
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`BA US 5,845,281 A
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`US 5,889,860
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`4/11/1995
`1o/1o/1995
`7/2/1996
`12/24/1996
`1o/14/1997
`msoneev
`4/14/1998
`4/28/1998
`sue/lees
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`9/15/1998
`12/1/1998
`12/1/1998
`12/8/1998
`2/23/1999
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`3/30/1999
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`Hanei et al.
`Funke et al.
`Benson et al.
`Kreft
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`Burns et al.
`Eller et al.
`
`Date
`Considered
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`'EXAM|NER: lnitial if reference considered, whether or not citation is in conformance with MPEP 609. Draw line through citation if not in conformance and
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`1 Applicant's unique citation designation number (optional). 2 See Kind
`Codes of U.S. Patent Documents at www.uspto.gov or MPEP 901.04.
`Enter Office that issued the document, by the two—letter code (VVIPO Standard
`ST.3). 4 For Japanese patent documents, the indication of the year of the reign of the Emperor must precede the serial number of the patent document. 5
`Kind of document by the appropriate symbols as indicated on the document under VVIPO Standard ST. 16 if possible. 6 Applicant is to place a check mark
`here if English language Translation is attached.
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`64087940 V1
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`Substitute for form 1449/PTO
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`INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
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`US 6,415,156 B1
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`US 6,442,570
`US 6,473,829
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`5/4/1999
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`Sun et al.
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`6/29/1999
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`1/25/2000
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`US 7,083,081
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`1/21/2003
`4/22/2003
`4/29/2003
`6/3/2003
`12/2/2003
`4/13/2004
`6/8/2004
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`1/31/2006
`2/14/2006
`2/21/2006
`5/16/2006
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`3/16/2010
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`not considered. Include copy of this form with next communication to applicant.
`1 Applicant's unique citation designation number (optional). 2 See Kind
`Codes of U.S. Patent Documents at www.uspto.gov or MPEP 901.04.
`Enter Office that issued the document, by the tvvo—letter code (\NlPO Standard
`ST.3). 4 For Japanese patent documents, the indication of the year of the reign of the Emperor must precede the serial number of the patent document. 5
`Kind of document by the appropriate symbols as indicated on the document under WIPO Standard ST. 16 if possible. 6 Applicant is to place a check mark
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`64087940 V1
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`Claim 40 (new): A handheld multimedia terminal, comprising:
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`a wireless interface configured to interface with a wireless network for accessing
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`non-volatile memory configured to store multimedia content, wherein said
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`multimedia content comprises one or more of music data, video data and computer game data;
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`a program store storing processor control code;
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`a processor coupled to said non-volatile memory, said program store, said
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`wireless interface and
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`a display for displaying one or both of said played multimedia content and data
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`wherein the processor control code comprises:
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`code to request identifier data identifying one or more items of multimedia
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`code to receive a user selection to select at least one of said one or more of said
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`stored items of multimedia content;
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`code responsive to said user selection of said at least one selected item of
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`multimedia content to transmit payment data relating to payment for said at least one selected
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`item of multimedia content via said wireless interface for validation by a payment validation
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`code to receive payment validation data via said wireless interface defining if said
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`multimedia content; and
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`said terminal responsive to said payment validation data,
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`wherein said user interface is operable to enable a user to select said at least one
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`wherein said user interface is operable to enable a user to access said at least one
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`selected item of multimedia content responsive to said code to control access permitting access
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`PATENT APPLICATION
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`InVentor(s):
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`Patrick Racz, a citizen of United Kingdom, residing at
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`Hermen-ard Hulst, a citizen of Netherlands, residing at
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`CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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`[0001]
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`This application is a continuation of U.S. Patent Application Number 12/943,872, filed
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`on November 10, 2010; which is a continuation of U.S. Patent Application Number 12/014,558,
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`filed on January 15, 2008, now issued U.S. Patent Number 7,942,317; which is a continuation of
`U.S. Patent Application No. 11/336,758, filed on January 19, 2006, now issued U.S. Patent
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`Number 7,334,720; which is a continuation of U.S. Patent Application No. 10/ 1 11,716, filed on
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`September 17, 2002, which application is a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371,
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`claiming the priority of international PCT Application No. GBO0l 041 10, filed on October 25,
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`2000; which claims priority to UK Application No. 9925227.2, filed on October 25 , 1999, each
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`of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
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`BACKGROUND or THE INVENTION
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`[0002]
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`This invention is generally concerned with data storage and access systems. More
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`particularly, it relates to a portable data carrier for storing and paying for data and to computer
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`systems for providing access to data to be stored. The invention also includes corresponding
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`methods and computer programs. The invention is particularly useful for managing stored audio
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`One problem associated with the increasingly wide use of the internet is the growing
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`prevalence of so-called data pirates. Such pirates obtain data either by unauthorized or
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`legitimate means and then make this data available essentially world-wide over the intemet
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`on the intemet it is difficult to police access to and use of it by intemet users who may not even
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`realize that it is pirated. This is a particular problem with audio recordings, and, once the
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`bandwidth becomes available, is also likely to be evident with video.
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`[0004] Over the past three or four years compressed audio sources have become increasingly
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