UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA, INC.
`Petitioner,
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`WEST VIEW RESEARCH, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`PATENT OWNER’S RESPONSE
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`Mail Stop Patent Board
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
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`Introduction ......................................................................................................... 1
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`II. Overview of the ’037 Patent ................................................................................ 2
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`III. Patent Owner Has Statutorily Disclaimed Claims 1, 37, 48, 71, 72, and 73 .... 21
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`IV. Argument ........................................................................................................... 22
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`A. Petitioner Has Failed to Provide Claim Constructions for Key Terms, and
`Has Not Met Its Prima Facie Burden of Obviousness. ........................................ 23
`B. Petitioner Has Failed to Provide A Structural Analysis for the Sole
`Independent Claim under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 6, and Hence Has Not Met Its
`Burden of Prima Facie Obviousness. ................................................................... 31
`C. Petitioner Has Assumed “Broadest Reasonable” Claim Constructions for
`Several Key Terms that are Unreasonable, Hence the Petition is Fatally
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`D. Petitioner’s Proposed Combinations of the References Ignore an Express
`Teaching Away and Rely on Impermissible Hindsight, Hence Petitioner’s
`Obviousness Analysis is Defective. ...................................................................... 47
`V. Conclusion ......................................................................................................... 51
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`EXHIBIT LIST
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`Exhibit 2001
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`Ulrich Hackenberg’s biographical information
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`Hackenberg explains VW’s new infotainment architecture
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`Exhibit 2003
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`U.S. Patent No. 5,539,775 to Tuttle et al.
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`Exhibit 2004
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`U.S. Patent No. 5,629,981 to Nerlikar
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`Exhibit 2005
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,311,834 to Gazdzinski
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`Exhibit 2006
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,301,456 to Gazdzinski
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`Exhibit 2007
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`Statutory Disclaimer of Claims 10, 18, 20, 21, 23, and 24 of
`U.S. Patent No. 8,065,156 in compliance with 35 U.S.C. §
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`Exhibit 2008
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`IEEE 802.11 from Wikipedia website
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`GPRS & EDGE from 3GPP website
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`Exhibit 2010
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`Mobile broadband from Wikipedia website
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`TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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`In re Kahn, 441 F.3d 977 (Fed Cir. 2006) ................................................................. 2
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`Sony Computer Entm’t Am. Inc. v. Dudas,
`2006 WL 1472462 (E.D.Va. 2006) ............................................................... 21
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`Blackberry Corp. v. MobileMedia Ideas, LLC,
`IPR2013-00036, Paper 65 (Mar. 7, 2014) ..................................................... 23
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`Phillips v. AWH Corp.,
`415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en banc) ..................................................... 23
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`Power Integrations v. Fairchild Semiconductor,
`711 F.3d 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2013) ..................................................................... 23
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`In re Am. Acad. of Sci. Tech. Ctr., 367 F.3d 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2004) ........................ 24
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`In re Gorman, 933 F.2d 982 (Fed. Cir. 1991) ......................................................... 24
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`Pride Solutions, LLC v. Not Dead Yet Manufacturing, Inc.,
`IPR2013-00627, Paper 14 (Mar. 17, 2014) ............................................. 31, 35
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`In re Donaldson Co., 16 F.3d 1189 (Fed. Cir. 1994) (en banc) .............................. 31
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`Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter Int’l, Inc., 582 F.3d 1288 (Fed. Cir. 2009) ............. 31
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`Blackberry Corp. v. MobileMedia Ideas, LLC,
`IPR2013-00036, Paper 65 at 20 (Mar. 7, 2014) ............................................ 31
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`KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007) .......................................... 32, 49
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`Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 148 USPQ 459 (1966) ............................. 32
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`Ball Aerosol v. Ltd. Brands,
`555 F.3d 984, 993, 89 USPQ2d 1870, 1877 (Fed. Cir. 2009) ....................... 32
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`Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, 792 F.3d 1339,
`115 USPQ2d 1105 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc) .............................................. 33
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`Watts v. XL Systems, Inc., 232 F.3d 877 (Fed. Cir. 2000) ....................................... 33
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`Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. International Trade Commission,
`161 F. 3d 696 (Fed. Cir. 1998) ................................................................................. 33
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`Ericsson Inc. et al. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC,
`IPR2014-01170, Paper 9 (Feb. 17, 2015) ...................................................... 33
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`TriMed, Inc. v. Stryker Corp., 514 F.3d 1256 (Fed. Cir. 2008) ............................... 35
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`Lighting World, Inc. v. Birchwood Lighting, Inc.,
`382 F.3d 1354, 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2004) ........................................................... 36
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`Facebook, Inc. v. Pragmatus AV, LLC, 2014 WL 4454956, 4 (Fed. Cir. Sep. 11,
`2014) ........................................................................................................................ 38
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`W.L. Gore & Assoc., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540 (Fed. Cir. 1983) ........... 47
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`In re Grasselli, 713 F.2d 731, 743 (Fed. Cir. 1983) ................................................ 47
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`In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900 (Fed. Cir. 1984) .......................................................... 47
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`In re McLaughlin, 443 F.2d 1392 (CCPA 1971) ..................................................... 51
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`Grain Processing Corp. v. American Maize-Prods. Co.,
`840 F.2d 902 (Fed. Cir. 1988) ....................................................................... 51
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`In re Dembiczak, 175 F.3d 994 (Fed. Cir. 1999) ..................................................... 51
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`Kinetic Concepts, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.,
`688 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2012) ..................................................................... 51
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`STATUTES
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`35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 6 ................................................................................................. 31
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`35 U.S.C. § 253(a) ................................................................................................... 21
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`35 U.S.C. § 314(a) ................................................................................................... 22
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`RULES AND REGULATIONS
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.108(c) ............................................................................................... 22
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`Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48,756 (Aug. 14, 2012) ........ 22, 37
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`MPEP § 2111 ..................................................................................................... 25, 38
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`MPEP § 2143 ........................................................................................................... 32
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`MPEP § 2181 ........................................................................................................... 33
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`Introduction
`Volkswagen Group Of America, Inc. (“Petitioner”) has filed an inter partes
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`review (“IPR”) petition against U.S. Patent 8,719,037 (the “’037 Patent”) owned
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`by West View Research, LLC (“Patent Owner”). Petitioner has also filed IPR
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`petitions against seven other patents owned by Patent Owner. The other petitions,
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`which involve a computerized information system like the system described in the
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`’037 Patent, were filed in IPR2015-01941 (Patent 8,065,156), IPR2016-00124
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`(Patent 8,706,504), IPR2016-00125 (Patent 8,290,778), IPR2016-00137 (Patent
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`8,682,673),
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`IPR2016-00146
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`IPR2016-00156
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`8,296,146), and IPR2016-00177 (Patent 8,781,839). All of the foregoing petitions
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`have been granted by the Board.
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`Petitioner challenges the patentability of Claims 1, 22, 37, 42, 48, 71-73, 75,
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`and 77 of the ’037 Patent solely on the basis of obviousness. The Board instituted
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`an inter partes review of Claims 22, 42, and 77 of the ’037 in view of Ito and Lind;
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`and Claim 75 of the ’037 patent in view of Ito, Lind, Fujiwara and Hsieh (pursuant
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`to a statutory disclaimer by Patent Owner of certain of the challenged claims).
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`However, as further detailed below, Petitioner fails to (i) perform statutorily
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`mandated analysis of certain of the claims; (ii) propose reasonable interpretations
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`for a number of material claim limitations, and (iii) set forth a prima facie case of
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`obviousness for any of the challenged claims. None of the specific grounds of
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`obviousness and combinations identified by the Petitioner and the Board presents
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`an “articulated reasoning with some rational underpinning to support the legal
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`conclusion of obviousness.” See In re Kahn, 441 F.3d 977, 988 (Fed Cir. 2006).
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`Accordingly, Petitioner has failed to meet its burden of showing that any
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`challenged claim of the ’037 Patent is unpatentable due to obviousness. Thus, the
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`Board should find Claims 22, 42, 75 and 77 of the ’037 Patent valid.
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`II. Overview of the ’037 Patent
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`The ’037 Patent discloses,
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`improved computerized
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`information system for adaptively and rapidly providing user-specific and other
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`information to users within a mobile transport apparatus (e.g., a land-mobile
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`shuttle or other such vehicle) within a contracted period of time, including for use
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`on their personnel electronic device or PED, such as e.g., after leaving the vehicle.
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`Ex. 1001 at Abstract, 2:46-55, 11:39-43. Generally, users of such transport
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`vehicles need a means to intuitively (and quickly) converge on information
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`enabling them to, for instance, find an entity (e.g., business) of interest. Id. at 2:56-
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`Problematically, such users may have neither (i) any pre-existing familiarity
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`vehicle before); nor (ii) any pre-existing familiarity of where the desired entity is
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`located (including relative to their current location or the transport vehicle itself).
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`Id. at 2:56-62.
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`Information pertinent to the user’s activities after egress from the vehicle
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`may include e.g., directions to a local restaurant or transportation facility, weather
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`information for their locale, etc. Id. at 2:46-55.
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`Moreover, such users
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`“personalization”, such that their identity (and preselected preferences) can be
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`applied to information they obtain each different time they enter the same (or
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`different) transportation modality. Id. at 4:9, 13:7-9, 20:51-21:16. Hence, certain
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`preferences should be applied to that individual user regardless of the particular
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`platform they select for transport (e.g., one of several available elevator cars in a
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`building, a different vehicle they happen to use on a given day, etc.), also known as
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`“platform agnosticism”.
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`FIG. 1 of the ’037 Patent, an annotated version of which is reproduced
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`below, shows one exemplary embodiment of the computerized information system,
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`which includes, inter alia, a central processing unit (e.g., microprocessor), digital
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`graphics co-processor, digital signal processor (DSP) and associated speech
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`processing (digitization/recognition) computer programs, a capacitive touch screen
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`input and display device, an entity database (not shown), a speech synthesis
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`module, a high-speed data interface to e.g., a user portable device or PED, and a
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`high-speed network interface (see e.g., FIG. 3 reproduced and annotated below,
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`showing one embodiment of a wireless interface using an IEEE Std. 802.11 (aka
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`The apparatus of FIG. 1 is an embodiment of a specific architecture
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`optimized for speed, utilizing only then (circa mid-1999) recently available state-
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`of-the-art technologies including use of data compression (e.g., code-excited linear
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`prediction, or CELP) to, inter alia, reduce wireless data bandwidth requirements,
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`Hidden Markov Modeling (HMM)-based speech recognition, at least four digital
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`processors (a DSP, a separate graphics co-processor, a CPU/microprocessor, as
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`well as a microcontroller), direct memory access (DMA) for the CPU which
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`expedites data accesses to/from RAM, a (then) very high-bandwidth wireless
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`interface (i.e., IEEE Std. 802.11) to enable rapid wireless transmission or receipt of
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`large data structures such as image files, and a capacitive touch-screen input and
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`areas of information) to enable rapid user intuition/assimilation for ease of use. Id.
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`Patent Owner notes anecdotally in passing that the technology of the ’037
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`computers, and in fact vehicles have now (more than 16 years later) whole-sale
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`adopted such an architecture, and specifically the foregoing combination of user
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`technologies. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg,
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`Interaction by touch is …mainly impressive because it is easy to learn
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`other areas. At Volkswagen, we are clearly relying on touch as a
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`Id. at 2 (emphasis added). The reader need only pick up their smartphone and
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`invoke the resident “maps” program via the touchscreen and say “Starbucks” or the
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`FIG. 15 of the ’037 Patent (reproduced and annotated below) illustrates one
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`exemplary embodiment of a wireless interface useful as part of the computerized
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`Further, the ’037 Patent incorporates by reference U.S. Patent No. 5,539,775
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`(Ex. 2003), which discloses a method and system in which a pseudo noise (PN)
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`sequence is generated for use within a wireless interface, and U.S. Patent No.
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`5,629,981 (Ex. 2004), which discloses a method and system in which authorizes
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`and maintains information security across a wireless interface, such as that shown
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`in FIG. 15. Ex. 1001 at 19:19-32; Ex. 2003 at 3:18-25; Ex. 2004 at 6:9-19.
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`The exemplary computerized information system disclosed in the ’037
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`Patent improves upon previous vehicular information systems (circa mid-1999) by,
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`simplified input to the system when the user is within the transport apparatus (e.g.,
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`via a simple spoken name, or touch on a touch screen correlating to a limited
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`number of prescribed categories of information). Ex. 1001 at 9:10-11:9, FIG. 4.
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`The ’037 Patent technology allows the user to converge on the desired entity from
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`multiple possibilities in a short period of time due to its simplified user interface,
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`and spatially orient themselves relative to the transport apparatus and the desired
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`entity or organization using intuitive and localized imagery, so that the user can
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`lists of directions, addresses, etc.). Id. at 2:36-3:2, 9:10-11:9, FIG. 4, FIG. 5. The
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`say the sub-function (e.g., “restaurants”), then enter a geographic region (e.g.,
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`“San Diego, CA”), then enter a street name or address (e.g., “Broadway”), etc.,
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`desired information within “only seconds”. Id. at 11:39-43.
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`The ’037 Patent provides the foregoing features in the exemplary
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`FIG. 4, reproduced and annotated below) which obviates the user from having to
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`and need only know a name or part of a name of the desired entity for which they
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`seek to obtain information. Id. at 9:33-36. The algorithm includes specific
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`In the “voice prompt” branch (left side of FIG. 4 flowchart), the user is
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`entered via speech of the user or the exemplary touch screen) until they converge
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`a single match, or several possible matches). Id. at 9:62-10:4. Once the desired
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`to the user to provide spatial orientation and a graphic representation of directions.
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`Id. at 9:58-62, 10:54-67. The provided image or graphic is highly localized, so as
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`a building or structure. Id. at 10:54-67.
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`Moreover, with regard to enabling the user to find the desired information
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`obviates the user having to establish a separate wireless or other connection to a
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`network via the portable device. Id. at 12:16-13:9. Users within transport apparatus
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`FIG. 7 of the ’037 Patent (reproduced and annotated below) illustrates one
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`22. A transport apparatus configured to transport one or more
`persons from one location to another, comprising:
`a passenger compartment; and
`computerized information and display apparatus disposed at
`least partly within the passenger compartment, the information and
`display apparatus comprising:
`a wireless network interface;
`processing apparatus in data communication with the
`network interface;
`a microphone;
`a display device; and
`a storage apparatus comprising at least one computer
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`obtain digitized speech generated based on speech
`received from a passenger via the microphone, the
`digitized speech comprising an affirmative request for
`desired information which the passenger wishes to find
`via a network search, the desired information relating to
`at least one of a plurality of predetermined topics of
`interest; and
`cause, based at least in part on the digitized
`speech, search of a remote network entity to cause
`retrieval of the desired information;
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`persons from one location to another, comprising:
`a passenger compartment; and
`computerized information and display apparatus disposed at
`least partly within the passenger compartment, the information and
`display apparatus comprising:
`a wireless network interface;
`processing apparatus in data communication with the
`network interface;
`a display device configured to be viewable by an
`occupant of the transport apparatus during use; and
`a storage apparatus comprising at least one computer
`program, said at least one program being configured to, when
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`the digitized speech
`comprising one or more terms relating to a desired
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`cause, based at least in part on at least one of the
`one or more terms, access of a remote network entity via
`the network interface to cause retrieval of the desired
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`wherein the computerized information and display apparatus is
`further configured to display at least a portion of the desired
`information on the display device, the information received via the
`network interface and selected based at least in part on the digitized
`speech; and
`wherein the desired information comprises at least one of a
`map and/or directions to a particular organization or entity
`accessible by the transport apparatus, the at least one map and/or
`directions comprising a graphical representation of the organization
`or entity and its surroundings.
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`48. A land-mobile personnel transport device configured to
`transport one or more persons from one location to another,
`comprising:
`a passenger compartment; and
`computerized information and display apparatus disposed at
`least partly within the passenger compartment, the information and
`display apparatus comprising:
`a wireless network interface;
`processing apparatus in data communication with the
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`a display device configured to be viewable by an
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`computerized logic configured to, when executed:
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`wherein the information and display apparatus is further
`configured to display at least a portion of the desired information on
`the display device, the information received via the network interface
`and selected based at least in part on the digitized speech; and
`wherein the desired information comprises at least one of a
`map and/or directions to a particular organization or entity
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`71. The device of claim 48, wherein the display device is
`mounted substantially flush with a surface of the interior of the
`passenger compartment so as to be visible by at least the occupant,
`yet mitigate incidental contact therewith.
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`72. The device of claim 71, further comprising a plurality of
`doors which provide access to the passenger compartment.
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`73. The device of claim 72, further comprising video data
`apparatus in data communication with the processing apparatus and
`configured to enable video data to be generated and displayed on the
`display device, the video data generated by one or more cameras
`associated with the personnel transport device so as to enable
`monitoring of one or more portions of an area surrounding the
`personnel transport device.
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`75. The device of claim 73,
`communication apparatus configured to enable at least voice
`communication by a passenger with a remote monitoring station while
`the transport device is in operation.
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`77. A land-mobile personnel transport device configured to
`transport one or more persons from one location to another,
`comprising:
`a passenger compartment; and
`computerized information and display apparatus disposed at
`least partly within the passenger compartment, the information and
`display apparatus comprising:
`a wireless network interface means;
`processing means in data communication with the
`network interface for processing data;
`display device means configured to be viewable by an
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`computerized logic means configured to, when operated:
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`cause, based at least in part on the digitized
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`interface means;
`wherein the information and display apparatus is further
`configured to display at least a portion of the desired information on
`the display device means, the information received via the network
`interface means and selected based at least in part on the digitized
`speech; and
`wherein the desired information comprises a map and visual
`directions to a particular organization or entity accessible by the
`transport device, the visual directions comprising at least a visually
`differentiated line or arrow showing a direction of travel from one
`location to the organization or entity via one or more pre-established
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`III. Patent Owner Has Statutorily Disclaimed Claims 1, 37, 48, 71, 72,
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`Next, Patent Owner notes that as indicated in Ex. 2007, a Statutory
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`statutorily disclaiming Claims 1, 37, 48, 71, 72, and 73 of the ’037 Patent under 35
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`While the Board’s decision to institute IPR of the ’037 Patent was based on
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`statutorily disclaimed Claim 48 is an independent Claim subject to the Petition, and
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`challenged Claim 75 depends either directly or indirectly thereon (and accordingly
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`Hence, the analysis of Claim 48 is warranted for proper understanding of Claim 75,
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`Patent Owner further notes that the Statutory Discla