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` BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`LG ELECTRONICS, INC. §
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` Petitioner § Case IPR2015-01984
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`VS. § Patent 8,434,020 B2
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`CORE WIRELESS LICENSING §
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`S.A.R.L. § Case IPR2015-01985
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` Patent Owner § Patent 8,713,476 B2
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` Deposition of
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` V. THOMAS RHYNE, Ph.D.
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` Tuesday, October 25, 2016
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` 9:00 a.m.
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` Reported by: Micheal A. Johnson, RDR, CRR
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` Pursuant to Notice, before Micheal A.
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` Johnson, Registered Diplomate Reporter and Certified
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` A P P E A R A N C E S
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` ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER:
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` Nicholas A. Brown
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` GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
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` 4 Embarcadero Center, Suite 3000
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` San Francisco, California 94111-5983
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` (415) 655-1300
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` brownn@gtlaw.com
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` Herbert H. Finn
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` GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
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` 77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 3100
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` Chicago, Illinois 60601
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` (312) 456-8400
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` finnh@gtlaw.com
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` ON BEHALF OF PATENT OWNER:
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` Wayne Helge
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` DAVIDSON BERQUIST JACKSON & GOWDEY, LLP
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` 8300 Greensboro Drive, Suite 500
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` McLean, Virginia 22102
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` (571) 765-7708
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` whelge@dbjg.com
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` INDEX
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`APPEARANCES 3
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`PROCEEDINGS 6
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` EXAMINATION OF V. THOMAS RHYNE, Ph.D.:
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` DEPOSITION EXHIBITS
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`NUMBER DESCRIPTION MARKED
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`Exhibit A Random House Webster's 55
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` Computer & Internet
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` Dictionary - Third Edition
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`NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE
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`Exhibit 2007 ......................... 92
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` PROCEEDINGS
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` V. THOMAS RHYNE, Ph.D.,
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` having been first duly sworn,
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` testified as follows:
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` EXAMINATION
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` BY MR. HELGE:
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` Q. Morning, Dr. Rhyne.
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` A. Good morning.
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` MR. HELGE: Nick, just for a quick
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` housekeeping matter, I believe you had filed your
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` reply and reply evidence on September 30th. And we
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` had filed objections to that reply of evidence on
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` October 7th, which is within the five business days.
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` By my calculation, ten business days from those
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` objections was last Friday and I did not receive any
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` supplemental evidence from you on that date; is that
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` MR. BROWN: I believe that's correct.
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` MR. HELGE: Okay.
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` MR. BROWN: Well, not as to all the dates.
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` As to -- those I don't remember, but as to not
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` serving supplemental evidence, that is correct.
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` MR. HELGE: Okay. Thank you. And then just
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` for confirmation as we've done before, we've got
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` MR. BROWN: Yes.
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` MR. HELGE: And if you can't hear me, please
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` BY MR. HELGE:
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` Q. Dr. Rhyne, I'm going to hand you two
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` documents identified as Exhibit 1015. And you can
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` see on the bottom, one is marked in the case
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` IPR2015-1984. Do you see that, Dr. Rhyne?
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` A. I haven't found that yet, but I'll find it
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` Q. Very bottom line on both pages there.
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` A. Okay. Way down here. Okay. Yeah.
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` Q. Now, I printed this version out in -- you
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` A. That's fine.
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` Q. And I also have a copy of Exhibit 1015 from
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` A. Okay. So one of them is -- they both deal
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` Q. Well, so that's one of my questions for you.
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` Both of these documents show on the cover page that
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` they're dealing with patent number 8,434,020. But I
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` A. Right. I think in the initials of what's
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` MR. BROWN: Yes.
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` MR. HELGE: Okay. Thank you.
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` Q. So, Dr. Rhyne, if you would prefer that we
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` A. I don't care. I mean, I guess I'm confused.
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` Are these two different documents or the same
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` Q. Well, did you prepare two declarations or --
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` A. I don't think I did.
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` Q. Okay. So you prepared one declaration?
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` A. I thought so. I mean, it's been a while
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` Q. Okay. Well, I think, then --
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` MR. BROWN: Yes.
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` Q. Okay. So, Dr. Rhyne, if we talk about
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` A. All right. I gather that to be the case.
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` Q. Okay. Dr. Rhyne, if you were to take a look
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` Q. Did you review all of these documents again
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` A. You mean like in the last day or two?
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` Q. Yes, sir.
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` A. I believe I did. Let me just run down the
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` A. Otherwise, I did review them all. And I'm
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` Q. Understood. Dr. Rhyne, I'm going to hand
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` A. Yes. I actually have it in color in a PDF,
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` but I do remember it.
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` Q. When did you first see this document?
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` A. I used to subscribe to Popular Science, so
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` A. I do not.
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` A. I do. It's one of the two user guides for
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` the Ericsson R380 smartphone that I have.
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` Q. When did you first see Exhibit 1011?
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` A. I believe it was last year, yes, sir.
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` Q. Had you seen a copy of this document prior
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` Q. Yes, sir.
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` A. Like in 2014?
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` Q. Or earlier, yes.
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` A. I don't have any recollection of seeing it
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` Q. And how did you acquire this document?
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` A. I don't have a clear recollection of whether
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` Q. Okay. So you don't know if this copy of
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` A. I don't understand the difference between
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` Q. And you don't know because this copy was
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` A. The original -- the PDF for this user
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` Q. You can set that aside as well, Dr. Rhyne.
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` A. Okay.
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` A. I do.
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` Q. And when did you first see this document?
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` A. I would think during the preparation of my
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` Q. And when you say that, you mean maybe
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` A. Sometime in the last several months.
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` Q. Had you seen this document before you were
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` Q. And how did you get a copy of this document?
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` Q. Okay, Dr. Rhyne, we can set this one aside
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` A. I do.
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` A. During the pendency of my writing the
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` Q. And so the first time you saw this document
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` A. Do you mean the specific pages or the
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` Q. Let's go with the specific pages first.
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` When was the first time you saw the specific pages?
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` A. I probably had looked at some of the
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` system software or something had come up. I don't
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` A. Yes. I copied all these pages for my
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` Q. Okay. So this document you generated; is
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` A. This subset, yes, I did.
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` Q. Okay. So, Dr. Rhyne, if we look at page 2,
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` there is a copyright date of 2000. Do you see that?
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` A. I do.
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` Q. And so this is the version of the IEEE
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` A. I own about ten different versions of it.
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` I've been on the standards committee for the IEEE
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` A. All right.
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` Q. Do you see the definition there for
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` A. I see a number of definitions for
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` application.
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` Q. Okay. How many definitions do you see?
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` A. Five, I think, for that one word by itself.
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` Q. Let's take a look at the end of each
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` definition. Do you see that there are a series of
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` definition for application?
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` A. I do.
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` A. Every definition that's found in the IEEE
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` Authoritative Dictionary of IEEE Standards Terms is
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` taken from IEEE, or in some cases ANSI, from a
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` variety of standards. And those identify the
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` specific standards, or standards in some cases,
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` which -- from which the particular definition of a
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` Q. So can you tell me what the letter "C"
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` A. Yes. It's computers.
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` A. I think it means it's computers, but more
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` A. Still on page 3?
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` Q. Yes, sir.
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` A. I do.
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` A. That means that the standard that this came
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` it said that it was dealing with computer issues.
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` Q. Okay. And what does 1003.5-1999 mean?
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` A. That's the name of the standard. In fact,
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` if you look into the back of the dictionary, there's
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` a glossary of all of the standards and it usually
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` has a little paragraph taken out of the standard
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` that explains what this standard was about, but
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` that's -- I believe that's an IEEE standard 1003.5
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` Q. And do you know what 1003.5, the standard --
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` I'll rephrase that question.
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` Do you know if there's a specific topic that
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` the standard 1003.5 deals with?
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` A. There will be a name for the standard.
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` Without having the dictionary here and looking to
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` A. I don't think I did. The main thing I was
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` A. Okay.
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` Q. -- if you look to the bottom right corner --
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` A. I see it.
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` Q. -- there is a definition -- actually, two
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` definitions on the bottom right corner for
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` "application software." Do you see that?
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` A. Yes, I do.
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` Q. Okay. And I'm going to ask you this: Do
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` you see the letter "C" at the end of the first
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. And do you see number 610.12-1990?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And you also felt that under the definition
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` That's what the "C" means. And the date is 1999.
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` A. I wouldn't say that, necessarily, but I'm
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` It's just, power engineering substations, I think,
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` things like that. It's not to say that it's wrong,
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` Exhibit 1001. This is specific to the 1984 case,
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` but I think you know the specifications of the -- of
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` the '020 patent and the '476 patent are pretty
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` similar, so if you have any questions or want to
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` Dr. Rhyne, let's take a look at column 5.
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` A. Okay.
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` Q. Dr. Rhyne, that first sentence, do you see
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` A. I do.
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` Q. It refers to systems which do not have a
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` A. I think it's something that maybe Mr. --
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` excuse me, Dr. Denning referred to as like a
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` Q. So do you read this sentence to mean that
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` A. Well, it certainly wouldn't have its
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` You might think of the whole thing as one big
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` application. I really hadn't thought about it much
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` It's just one big chunk of software.
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` Q. Well, let's come up with a term that we can
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` interface, which you then wrote individual
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` applications to do particular sets of functionality
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` atop that application programming interface, also
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` called an API. I think those two concepts, the one
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` you were asking me about before and what I just
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` described to you, are specifically identified in --
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` I don't know how to pronounce it, oh-men, Oommen, in
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` that reference.
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` MR. HELGE: That's O-o-m-m-e-n.
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` BY MR. HELGE:
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` Q. Dr. Rhyne, let's come up with a term for
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` that type of programming scheme. How would you
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` characterize that?
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