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` UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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` BEFORE THE PATENT AND APPEAL BOARD
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`LG ELECTRONICS, INC., :
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` Petitioner, :
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`VS. : Case IPR2015-01984
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`CORE WIRELESS LICENSING : Patent 8,434,020
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`S.A.R.L., :
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` Patent Owner. :
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` ORAL DEPOSITION OF
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` V. THOMAS RHYNE, PhD
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` APRIL 28, 2016
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` ORAL DEPOSITION OF V. THOMAS RHYNE, PhD,
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`produced as a witness at the instance of the Patent
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`Owner and duly sworn, was taken in the above-styled and
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`numbered cause on the 28th day of April, 2016, from
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`9:04 a.m. to 1:05 p.m., before Marsha Yarberry,
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`Certified Shorthand Reporter in and for the State of
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`Texas, reported by machine shorthand, at the offices of
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`Section 42.53 and the provisions stated on the record
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` APPEARANCES
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`FOR THE PETITIONER:
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` MR. KEVIN KUDLAC
` GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
` 300 West 6th Street, Suite 2050
` Austin, Texas 78701
` 512-320-7277
` kudlack@gtlaw.com
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` MR. HERBERT H. FINN (Via Telephone)
` MR. ERIC MAIERS (Via Telephone)
` GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
` 77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 3100
` Chicago, Illinois 60601
` 312-456-8400
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` maierse@gtlaw.com
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`FOR THE PATENT OWNER:
` MR. WAYNE HELGE
` DAVIDSON BERQUIST JACKSON & GOWDEY, LLP
` 8300 Greensboro Drive, Suite 500
` McLean, Virginia 22102
` 571-765-7708
` whelge@dbjg.com
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`ALSO PRESENT:
` Mr. Kenneth Liu
` Mr. Nicholas Brown
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`Appearances..................................... 2
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`V. THOMAS RHYNE, PhD
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` Examination by Mr. Helge.................... 4
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` Examination by Mr. Kudlac................... 114
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` Further Examination by Mr. Helge............ 124
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`Changes and Corrections......................... 127
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`Signature....................................... 128
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`Reporter's Certificate.......................... 129
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` PREVIOUSLY MARKED EXHIBITS
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`NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE/LINE REFERENCED
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`Exhibit 1001, Patent '020....................... 8/10
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`Exhibit 1001, Patent '476....................... 8/12
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`Exhibit 1002.................................... 37/2
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`Exhibit 1004, Declaration, '476................. 101/2
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`Exhibit 1004, Declaration, '020................. 104/3
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`having been first duly sworn, testified as follows:
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` EXAMINATION
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`QUESTIONS BY MR. HELGE:
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` Q. Good morning, Dr. Rhyne.
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` A. Good morning, Mr. Helge.
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` Q. You have been deposed a number of times
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`before, correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And you were deposed yesterday in another IPR
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Were you provided with a list of standard
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` A. No.
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` Q. Okay. You understand those rules pretty well?
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` A. Well, if I fail to follow them, just point it
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` Q. Understood. Understood. Is there any reason
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` A. No.
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` Q. Dr. Rhyne, could you please just for the
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` A. It's Vernon Thomas Rhyne III.
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` Q. Dr. Rhyne, you're registered as a patent
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`agent, correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Dr. Rhyne, have you given many depositions in
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` A. I believe yesterday was my first --
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` Q. Okay.
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` A. -- in terms of a deposition.
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` Q. Understood. Understood. Are you aware that
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` A. No.
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` Q. Okay. I appreciate that. Let me go ahead and
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`give you -- what I'm going to do is actually read into
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`understand what is required here. Well, first of all,
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`you understand that this is a cross-examination,
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` A. Well, in that sense, yes.
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` Q. Okay. Because your direct testimony was the
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`declarations you provided in these cases, correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. So I'm going to read this to you from
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` A. Yes. Sounds very much like what they call the
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` Q. Okay. So you understand that you're not
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` A. Yes, I understand that.
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` Q. Okay. And that goes, you know, even during
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` A. Sure.
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` Q. Okay. Great. And, Dr. Rhyne, do you
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` A. That's entirely up to you whether you choose
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`IPR2015-01984, correct?
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` A. I don't remember the numbers.
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` Q. Okay.
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` A. But I know that I have submitted, in relation
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` Q. Okay. Understood.
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` A. I don't know the numbers of the IPRs.
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` Q. Understood. And the time period of -- I think
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: That's a little later than
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` MR. HELGE: Sure. Sure.
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` Counsel, just for purposes of the
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` MR. HELGE: -- the '020 patent. 1001 in
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` MR. KUDLAC: That makes perfect sense.
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` MR. HELGE: Thank you.
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` MR. KUDLAC: I'll try and do the same if
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) Dr. Rhyne, I'm going to hand
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` MR. KUDLAC: You've already lost track.
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) The 1985 case. This is what
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`Dr. Rhyne, have you seen this document before?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. This is one of the patents that you provided a
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`declaration on, correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And do you see on the left side of this patent
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`there is a foreign application priority date?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Do you see that?
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` A. Uh-huh.
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` Q. And do you see that date is July 28th, 2000?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. And is that the time period from which
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` A. That's what I understood to be the priority
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` A. I think it was the advance in cellular
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` Q. Okay. If I understood your answer correctly,
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` A. Is that a question?
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` Q. Is that correct, that you were talking a few
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` Q. Okay. What makes a phone a smart phone
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` THE WITNESS: As I said, it's having a
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` Q. Okay. What is that normally referred to as?
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` Q. Is it correct to say that an operating system
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: No.
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) What is incorrect with what I
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` A. I don't think of the operating system as doing
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` Q. Okay. Is it correct to say that an operating
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`instructions?
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` A. Well, the operating system doesn't execute
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` Q. An operating system accesses instructions; is
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`normally an operating system does, brings it in so it
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` Q. Brings it into the volatile memory?
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` A. That's typically the case.
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` Q. And that's -- your answer you just gave me was
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` A. Well, when I think of an operating system,
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` Q. In the mid -- or excuse me. In the mid-2000
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`whether mobile phones were using operating systems.
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`Correct?
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`mobile phone operating systems. I just don't remember
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`think, is that the dumb phone just had a body of code
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` Q. So a dumb phone had a body of code is what you
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` A. No. All phones that had programmable
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`processors had code to be executed by that processor.
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` Q. Is it correct to refer to that code also as
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` A. Yes. Machine instructions.
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` Q. And where are those -- let's -- let's continue
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`talking about the mid-2000 time period. Where would
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`those instructions have been stored in a mobile phone?
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` A. I may not understand your language when you
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`say mid-2000. You mean the middle of the year 2000?
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` Q. That's a great question. I think for the
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`purpose of the entire day today, if I say mid-2000,
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`what I'm really thinking about is up to the priority
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`date of July 28th, 2000.
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` A. Okay. That's what confused me much earlier in
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`the deposition. Well, not much earlier, but earlier
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`when you said something about it -- relevant time frame
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`being in the mid-2000.
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` Q. I see.
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` A. You probably didn't say mid-2000s, but I heard
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` Q. In -- let's put it this way. As of July of
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`2000, where would a phone store the instructions that
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` A. In, as I said, some type of nonvolatile memory
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`so that if the battery ran down you didn't lose the
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`instructions. You had mentioned, I think, ROM as being
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`one type. Flash, okay, is another type that can be
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`mobile phones in July of 2000?
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` A. I think so.
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` Q. Was flash really expensive in July of 2000?
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` A. Depends on how much you needed, but it wasn't
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`volatile memory?
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`acronym that if you unwind the acronym is really
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`the way most people use the terms "ROM" and "RAM" is
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`RAM is volatile. If you lose the power, you lose the
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` Q. And that's why the OS accesses instructions
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`from nonvolatile and puts it into volatile for
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`execution, correct?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: That's not really why. It
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`has to do with speed of execution.
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) Is it because the speed of
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`execution in nonvolatile is faster than volatile?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And why is that?
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` A. No, you said it backwards. Okay. It's faster
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`in RAM. They -- they have faster access times than
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` A. The technology of the semiconductors that are
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` Q. And was that the case in July of 2000 as well?
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` A. It's been that way for a long, long time
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`before that.
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`"kernel," k-e-r-n-e-l?
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` A. In a couple of contexts, but yes.
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` Q. Okay. In what different contexts are you
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`familiar with that term?
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` A. Well, the one I think that's relevant here is
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`that it's commonly referred to a set of code that is
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`sort of the heartbeat or brain of the operating
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`environment. It's something that you bring in which
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`basically lets the system that it's relevant to start
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`its operations.
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` Q. Is the kernel part of an operating system?
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` A. Generally that's a fair way to think about it.
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`It's the -- sort of like the lifeline that you bring in
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`to get things started.
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` Q. If a mobile phone in July of 2000 did not have
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`an operating system, would it still have a kernel?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: I wouldn't use it that way
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`referred to some piece of code that was running in that
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`hypothetical phone as having a kernel.
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) Why would you --
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` A. I wouldn't think of it as having such a thing.
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` Q. And why would you not think of it that way?
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` A. I just don't use the term "kernel" outside the
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`context of an operating system environment personally.
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` Q. Is the kernel in a phone with an operating
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`system, is it allowing interaction between other parts
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`of the phone?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Object to form, lack of
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`foundation, incomplete hypothetical.
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` THE WITNESS: Yeah, I don't think I have
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`enough -- that's too vague a question.
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) Okay. Does a kernel allow
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`applications to be run on a phone with an operating
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`system?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Same objections.
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` THE WITNESS: I tend to think of the
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`kernel as a subset of the overall operating system that
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`teach it, it would have had the capability to bring in
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`as part of the operation an application and started
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`application?
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` A. It wouldn't make a whole lot of difference
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`whether it was native or a later installed one. It
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`would just be an app as we say today.
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` Q. Are there different types of kernels that have
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` A. I'm sure there are.
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` Q. Have you heard of a monolithic kernel?
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` A. I have not heard that term.
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` Q. Have you heard of a microkernel?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. What does a microkernel mean?
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` A. I think it's something that people were trying
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`is the limited amount of stuff that you could bring in
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`to get some computer system into operation.
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` Q. Are you familiar at all, Dr. Rhyne, with any
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`type of association between types of kernels and memory
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`space?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: I don't think I understand
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`that question well enough to say no, but I think
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`depending upon how much memory you have allocated in a
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`answers your question. I don't know.
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) So if the code is more
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`complex, it would occupy more memory; is that right?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: That would certainly be
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` Q. (By Mr. Helge) And why is that?
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` A. Just so you don't have to keep -- again, are
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`cellular phone or just a generic computer environment?
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`Let me -- let me get that straight in my head.
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` Q. Well, I think at this point I'm just asking
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`about a very general environment.
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` A. Well, in a general computer environment you
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`nonvolatile memory and that the volatile memory is fast
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`and usually more limited than what you have available
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`memory, and as a result, you don't have to pay the
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`overhead of figuring out what to throw out of the
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`of code. Is it correct that the kernel code would be
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`stored in the nonvolatile memory and brought into the
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`volatile memory for -- maybe upon booting up the
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`machine?
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` A. It may be even stored in a specialized
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`nonvolatile memory where it lives that's not even the
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`other nonvolatile memory. You know, you've got -- in a
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`bigger computer system you talk about a BIOS, a basic
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`input/output system, that's sort of the kernel in a
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`like a kernel in the sense. I use that term
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` Q. But in your investigation in July of 2000,
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`you're not aware of any mobile phones that had either
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`operating systems or kernels, correct?
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` A. I can't name any for you. Okay. I've done
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`unable then or recently to confirm any example of a
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`circa 2000 cell phone that had a -- what I would call a
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`legitimate full-blown operating environment.
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` Q. So you mentioned you performed some research
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`for the litigation. Were you relying on any of that
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`research in your declarations?
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` A. I don't think so. I mean, it's just in my
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`head. I've tried to understand how -- the capabilities
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`of the processors that were available in cell phones,
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`Motorola cell phones did and what kind of processors
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`they had. And I just -- I think I have a generic
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`understanding of what was happening with the processing
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`capabilities of a lot of different kinds of computer
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`systems in that time frame.
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`declaration you've actually disclosed in your
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`declaration, correct?
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` A. Yes, in terms of documentations.
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` Q. And also in your head, correct?
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`in my head. Okay. I don't think I actually said that
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`I used my brain, but I did, okay, in writing that
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`report. And if I failed to do that, let me tell you
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`now with -- unequivocally, I used my brain in writing
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`that declaration.
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` Q. And your experience also, correct?
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` A. Well, that's part of what's in my brain.
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` Q. Understood. Is it fair to say that as of
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`July 2000 a person of ordinary skill in the art would
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`without an operating system and without a kernel?
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` MR. KUDLAC: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: I don't -- I don't think a
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`those capabilities. There certainly may be outliers
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`that are exceptions to that where people were working
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` But, you know, my view of the way phones
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