FINANCIAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
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`CDW LLC and INTERNATIONAL
`BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION,
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`Plaintiffs,
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`Defendants.
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
`EASTERN DIVISION
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`Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-08729
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`Hon. Virginia M. Kendall
`Mag. Judge Sheila M. Finnegan
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`FINANCIAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
`PTY. LTD. AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY PTY. LTD.'S
`LOCAL PATENT RULE 4.1 IDENTIFICATION OF CLAIM
`TERMS TO BE CONSTRUED AND PROPOSED CONSTRUCTIONS
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`Pursuant to Local Patent Rule 4.1, plaintiffs Financial Systems Technology (Intellectual
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`Property) Pty. Ltd. and Financial Systems Technology Pty. Ltd. (collectively, "FST") hereby
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`provide their identification of claim terms to be construed by the Court along with proposed
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`constructions for such terms as they appear in the asserted claims of United States Patent
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`Nos. RE40,520 and RE40,526 ("the patents-in-suit").
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`FST's proposed constructions are provided in Exhibit A attached hereto. To the extent
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`that FST does not provide a proposed construction of any term or phrase appearing in any
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`asserted claim of the patents-in-suit, FST relies on the plain and ordinary meaning of such term
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`or phrase for the purposes of claim construction. FST specifically reserves the right to provide a
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`proposed construction or identification of a term's plain and ordinary meaning in response to
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`proposed constructions offered by IBM. FST also reserves the right to offer additional,
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`alternative or revised claim constructions based upon IBM's identification of claim terms for
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`construction and proposed claim constructions.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/s/ Robert A. Conley
`Raymond P. Niro
`Dean D. Niro
`Patrick F. Solon
`Dina M. Hayes
`Robert A. Conley
`Oliver D. Yang
`NIRO, HALLER & NIRO
`181 W. Madison, Suite 4600
`Chicago, IL 60602
`(312) 236-0733
`Fax: (312) 236-3137
`rniro@nshn.com; dniro@nshn.com
`solon@nshn.com; hayes@nshn.com;
`rconley@nshn.com; oyang@nshn.com
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`Robert S. Bramson (pro hac vice)
`BRAMSON & PRESSMAN
`1100 E. Hector Street , Suite 410
`Conshohocken, PA 19428
`(610) 260-4444
`Fax: (610) 260-4445
`rbramson@b-p.com
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`Attorneys for Financial Systems Technology
`(Intellectual Property) Pty. Ltd. and Financial
`Systems Technology Pty. Ltd.
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that on November 30, 2012 the foregoing
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`FINANCIAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
`PTY. LTD. AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY PTY. LTD.'S
`LOCAL PATENT RULE 4.1 IDENTIFICATION OF CLAIM
`TERMS TO BE CONSTRUED AND PROPOSED CONSTRUCTIONS
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`was served upon the following counsel of record via electronic transmission.
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`Kenneth R. Adamo
`kradamo@kirkland.com
`William E. Devitt
`wdevitt@kirkland.com
`Meredith Zinanni
`meredith.zinanni@kirkland.com
`Joel R. Merkin
`joel.merkin@kirkland.com
`Eugene Goryunov
`egoryunov@kirkland.com
`Kirkland & Ellis LLP
`300 North LaSalle Street
`Chicago, IL 60654
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`Attorneys for International Business Machines Corporation
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`/s/ Robert A. Conley
`Attorneys for Financial Systems Technology
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`NIRO, HALLER & NIRO
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`EXHIBIT A
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`EXHIBIT A
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`No. Term
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`table
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`record
`entity
`entity definition table
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`entity type
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`entity type record
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`entity instance table
`entity instance record
`relation
`relation definition table
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`FST'S PROPOSED CLAIM CONSTRUCTIONS
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`FST's Proposed Construction
`permanent structure of a relational database which stores queryable and updatable data
`in rows and columns
`set of data stored in a single row of a table
`anything about which information can be stored in a database record
`relational database table that defines one or more entity types and stores one or more
`entity type records
`identification of a class of entity data, said identification being uniquely defined in the
`entity definition table
`record in an entity definition table, said record containing, as two separate attributes, an
`entity type and a table identifier of an entity instance table
`relational database table that stores one or more entity instance records
`record in an entity instance table, said record constituting an instance of an entity type
`logical link between entities
`relational database table that defines one or more relation types and stores one or more
`relation type records
`identification of a class of relation data, said identification being uniquely defined in the
`relation definition table
`record in a relation definition table, said record containing, as two separate attributes, a
`relation type and a table identifier of a relation instance table
`relational database table that stores one or more relation instance records
`record in a relation instance table, said record constituting an instance of a relation type,
`said instance containing, as two separate attributes, an identifier of a first entity and an
`identifier of a second entity, and where said first and second entities are stored in tables
`separate from the relation instance table
`record that describes a search path, said description including a relation
`search path record
`relational database table that stores search path records
`inquiry definition table means
`abbreviated results gathering means memory area that gathers data from one or more relational database tables and stores a
`subset of attributes from one or more entities, said entity attributes being obtained by
`execution of a search path record
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`relation type
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`relation type record
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`relation instance table
`relation instance record
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