Filed on behalf of: Unified Patents Inc.
`By: P. Andrew Riley
`Kai Rajan
`Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow,
` Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
`901 New York Avenue, NW
`Washington, DC 20001–4413
`Telephone: 202-408-4000
`E–mail:
`VoIP-Pal-815-IPR@finnegan.com
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`Jonathan Stroud
`Unified Patents Inc.
`1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, Floor 10
`Washington, D.C., 20009
`Telephone: 202-805-8931
`E–mail:
`jonathan@unifiedpatents.com
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`____________
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
`____________
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`UNIFIED PATENTS INC.,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`VOIP-PAL.COM INC.,
`Patent Owner
`____________
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`IPR2016-01082
`Patent 8,542,815
`Producing Routing Messages for Voice Over IP Communications
`____________
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`PETITION FOR INTER PARTES REVIEW OF U.S. PATENT 8,542,815
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 1
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`II. MANDATORY NOTICES ....................................................................... 4
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`A.
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`B.
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`C.
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`Real Party-in-Interest ....................................................................................... 4
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`Related Matters ................................................................................................. 4
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`Lead and Back-Up Counsel, and Service Information ............................. 4
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`III. FEE PAYMENT ....................................................................................... 5
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`IV.
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`STATEMENT OF PRECISE RELIEF REQUESTED .......................... 5
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`A.
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`B.
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`C.
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`Claims for Which Review Is Requested ...................................................... 5
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`Statutory Grounds of Challenge .................................................................... 5
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`The Level of Ordinary Skill in the Art at the Time of the
`Claimed Invention ............................................................................................ 6
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`V.
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`THE ’815 PATENT .................................................................................. 6
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`A. Overview of the Disclosure ............................................................................ 6
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`B.
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`Prosecution History .......................................................................................... 8
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`VI. GROUNDS FOR STANDING ................................................................. 9
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`A.
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`Claim Construction ........................................................................................ 10
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`“Caller dialing profile” ...................................................................... 10
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`“Calling attributes” ............................................................................. 11
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`“Means for receiving” ........................................................................ 12
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`“Means for locating a caller dialing profile” ................................ 12
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`“Means for determining a match” ................................................... 13
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`“Means for classifying the call” ...................................................... 13
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`“Means for producing a [public/private] network routing
`message” ............................................................................................... 13
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`“Means for accessing a database” ................................................... 14
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`“Means for formatting said callee identifier” ............................... 14
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`“Means for causing the private network routing message
`or the public network message to be communicated to a
`call controller” ..................................................................................... 14
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`A.
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`VII. CLAIMS 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 OF
`THE ’815 PATENT ARE ANTICIPATED UNDER 35 U.S.C.
`§ 102(e) AND/OR UNPATENTABLE UNDER 35 U.S.C.
`§ 103(a) ..................................................................................................... 15
`Turner is Prior Art Under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) .......................................... 15
`Kaczmarczyk is Prior Art Under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) .............................. 15
`C. Ground 1: Turner anticipates claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54,
`72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) ................................. 15
`D. Ground 2: Kaczmarczyk in view of Turner renders claims 1, 2,
`7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 obvious under
`35 U.S.C. § 103(a) .......................................................................................... 34
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`B.
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`VIII. CONCLUSION....................................................................................... 56
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`TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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`Cases
`Voip-Pal.com, Inc. v. Verizon Wireless Services, LLC et al.,
`2-16-cv-00271 (D. Nev.) ..................................................................................... 4
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`Voip-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.,
`2-16-cv-00260 (D. Nev.) ..................................................................................... 4
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`Phillips v. AWH Corp.,
`415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en banc) ............................................................ 9
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`Federal Statutes
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`35 U.S.C. § 102(b) ................................................................................................. 15
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`35 U.S.C. § 102(e) .............................................................................................. 5, 15
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`35 U.S.C. § 103(a) ......................................................................................... 5, 15, 34
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`35 U.S.C. § 112 ........................................................................................... 12, 13, 14
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`35 U.S.C. § 311 .......................................................................................................... 5
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`Regulations
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(1) ................................................................................................ 4
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.15(a) ................................................................................................... 5
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b) .............................................................................................. 10
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.103(a) ................................................................................................. 5
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.104(a) ................................................................................................. 9
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`LIST OF EXHIBITS
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`Description
`Exhibit
`EX100l U-S. Patent No. 8,542,815 B2 to Perreault et al-
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`EX1002 Declaration of Michael Calo annides, Ph.D.
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`EXl003 U.S. Patent No. 7,218,722 B1 to Turner et al. “Turner”
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`EX1004 U.S. Patent No. 6,961,334 B1 to Casimer M. Kaczmarczyk
`’Ar’
`“Kaczmarcz
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`EX1005 Exce ts of rosecution Histo
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`for U.S. Patent No. 8,542,815
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`EX1006 U.S. Patent No. 8,594,298 to Klein et al. “Klein”
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`EXl007 Livengood, Daniel, et al. “Public Switched Telephone Networks: A
`Network Analysis of Emerging Networks. Massachusetts Institute of
`, submitted Ma 16, 2006, a; 5-6.
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`EX1008 Hallock, Joe, “A Brief History of VoIP: Document One — The Past,”
`Evolution and Trends in Digital Media Technologies — COM 538,
`Universi of Washin ton, November 26, 2004, o . 7.
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`EX10l0 “Over $7 Billion in Lawsuits Filed by Voip—Pal.com Inc. VS Apple,
`Verizon and AT&T for Various Patent Infringements,”
`Businesswire.com, January 11, 2016, available at
`http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2016021 100543 9/en/7-
`Billion—Lawsuits—Fi1ed—Voi o —Pal.com—A 0 o le—Verizon.
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`INTRODUCTION
`Petitioner Unified Patents Inc. (“Unified”) requests Inter Partes Review
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`(“IPR”) of claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 of U.S.
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`Patent No. 8,542,815 (“the ’815 patent”) assigned to Digifonica (International)
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`Limited (“Digifonica”) (EX1001).
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`The ’815 patent has a filing date of March 1, 2010, and is a § 371 national
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`stage application of PCT no. PCT/CA2007/001956, filed November 1, 2007. This
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`application claims priority to U.S. provisional application no. 60/856,212, filed
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`November 2, 2006. The ’815 patent describes a process and apparatus for
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`facilitating communication between callers and callees in a system that generates
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`routing messages identifying private network addresses or public network
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`gateways. EX1001 at Abstract. The ’815 patent alleges that the invention relates to
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`voice over IP (“VoIP”) communication, id. at 12–13, though the independent
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`claims are not so limited. EX1002 ¶¶ 23, 24. The ’815 patent suggests that it
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`uniquely fills gaps in bridging communication between private networks (such as
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`VoIP networks) and public networks such as Public Switched Telephone Networks
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`(“PSTN”). The ’815 patent states:
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`Existing VoIP systems do not allow for high availability and
`resiliency in delivering Voice Over IP based Session Initiation
`Protocol (SIP) Protocol service over a geographically dispersed area
`such as a city, region or continent. Most resiliency originates from the
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`provision of IP based telephone services to one location or a small
`number of locations such as a single office or network of branch
`offices.
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`Id. at 1:40–46.
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`Technologies that enable public and private communication network
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`connections have long been well-known in the art. The claimed “public network”
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`includes, for example, a PSTN, which has existed, in evolving forms, for more
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`than a century—i.e., since the invention of the telephone in 1876.1 The claimed
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`“private network” includes private phone networks or Internet Protocol networks
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`that use VoIP communication protocols. These types of networks were invented
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`more than twenty years ago—at least a decade prior to the ’815 patent priority
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`date. 2 Moreover, a plethora of systems connecting VoIP private networks and
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`PSTN public networks have existed since well before the ’815 patent. One good
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`example, U.S. Patent No. 8,594,298 to Klein et al. (“Klein”, attached as EX1006)
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`1 EX1007: Livengood, Daniel, et al. “Public Switched Telephone Networks: A
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`Network Analysis of Emerging Networks. Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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`submitted May 16, 2006, pg. 5-6.
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`2 EX1008: Hallock, Joe, “A Brief History of VoIP: Document One - The Past,”
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`Evolution and Trends in Digital Media Technologies - COM 538, University of
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`Washington, November 26, 2004, pg. 7.
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`discloses such a system. Klein, which was filed on February 20, 2004, and
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`published on September 15, 2005, and discloses connecting PSTN 103 to PBX
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`104C (Private Branch Exchange) in figures 1 and 14. Thus, these types of networks
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`and connections existed long before the ’815 patent claims to have invented them,
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`providing motivation to interconnect individual users through the various methods
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`of known communication networks. EX1002 ¶ 24.
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`Other features of the ’815 patent, such as the use of caller profiles and
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`“attributes” associated with callers, are at least as old as the decades-old VoIP
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`technology. Indeed, the ’815 patent specification itself concedes that “attributes”
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`contained in caller profiles consist of standard information such as location codes,
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`country codes, and international dialing digits. EX1001 at 18:1–54. In other words,
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`technologies using the claimed types of information were widely known prior to
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`the application for the ’815 patent and its priority date. EX1002 ¶¶ 25, 26.
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`Years before the ’815 patent’s effective filing date, a myriad of prior art
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`patents and printed publications disclosed the claimed combination of elements,
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`though we are limited to addressing just a few good examples. As this petition
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`demonstrates, the disclosures of Turner (EX1003) and Kaczmarczyk (EX1004),
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`among other patents and publications, warrant the cancellation of claims 1, 2, 7,
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`27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111.
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`II. MANDATORY NOTICES
`A. Real Party-in-Interest
`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(1), Petitioner certifies that Unified is the real
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`party-in-interest, and further certifies that no other party exercised control or could
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`exercise control over Unified’s participation in this proceeding, the filing of this
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`petition, or the conduct of any ensuing trial. In this regard, Unified has submitted
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`voluntary discovery. See EX1009
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`(Petitioner’s Voluntary
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`Interrogatory
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`Responses).
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`B. Related Matters
`Upon information and belief, the ’815 patent has been thus far asserted in
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`the following cases: Voip-Pal.com, Inc. v. Verizon Wireless Services, LLC &
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`AT&T Corp., 2-16-cv-00271 (D. Nev. Feb. 9, 2016), and Voip-Pal.com, Inc. v.
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`Apple, Inc., 2-16-cv-00260 (D. Nev. Feb. 9, 2016). VoIP-PAL.com, Inc., in a
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`public press release filed on February 11, 2016, announced it seeks to monetize
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`this and one other patent for over $7 billion in damages. See EX1010.
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`C. Lead and Back-Up Counsel, and Service Information
`The signature block of this petition designates lead counsel, backup counsel,
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`and service information for each petitioner. Unified designates P. Andrew Riley
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`(Reg. No. 66,290) as lead counsel and designates Kai Rajan (Reg. No. 70,110) as
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`backup counsel. Both can be reached at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &
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`Dunner, LLP, 901 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001-4413 (phone:
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`202.408.4000; fax: 202.408.4400). Unified designates as backup counsel Jonathan
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`Stroud (Reg. No. 72,518). Petitioner consents to e—mail service at VoIP—Pal—8l5—
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`IPR@fmnegan.com and jonathan@unifiedpatents.com.
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`III. FEE PAYMENT
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`The required fees are submitted under 37 C .F.R. §§ 42.103(a) and 42.l5(a).
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`If any additional fees are due during this proceeding, the Office may charge such
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`fees to Deposit Account No. 06-0916.
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`IV.
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`STATEMENT OF PRECISE RELIEF REQUESTED
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`A.
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`Claims for Which Review Is Requested
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`Petitioner requests IPR and cancellation of claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54,
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`72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 ofthe ’815 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 311.
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`B.
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`Statutory Grounds of Challenge
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`Claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 are challenged
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`as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(e) and/or 103(a) as shown below. The
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`claim construction, reasons for unpatentability, and specific evidence supporting
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`this request are detailed below.
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`Ground Proposed Statutory Rejections for the ’815 Patent
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`Exhibit .\'o(s).
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`in View of Turner.
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`Claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and
`111 are anticipated under § 102(e) by U-S. Patent No.
`7,218,722 B1 to Turner, et al.
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`Claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and
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`111 are obvious under § 103(a) over U.S. Patent No.
`6,961,334 B1 to Caisirner M. Kaczmarczyk
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`EX1003
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`C. The Level of Ordinary Skill in the Art at the Time of the Claimed
`Invention
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`The ’815 patent ultimately claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application
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`No. 60/856,212, filed November 2, 2006. At that time, a person having ordinary
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`skill in the art (hereafter, “POSA”) of telecommunication (i.e., in the art for the
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`’815 patent) would have (i) a B.S. degree in computer engineering, electrical
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`engineering, computer science, or equivalent field, and (ii) approximately two
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`years of experience or research on switched circuit telephony and packetized
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`telephony, such as VoIP. See EX1002 at ¶ 28.
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`V. THE ’815 PATENT
`A. Overview of the Disclosure
`The ’815 patent describes a process and apparatus for facilitating
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`communication between callers and callees by generating routing messages
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`identifying private network addresses or public network gateways. EX1001 at
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`Abstract.
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`The ’815 patent alleges that the invention relates to voice over IP (“VoIP”)
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`communication (Id. at 12–13), though the independent claims are not so limited.
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`In the specification, the ’815 patent describes the general process for the
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`invention as involving (1) receiving a callee identifier [such as a dialed number]
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`from a calling subscriber, (2) classifying the call as a public network or private
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`network call using criteria [attributes] associated with the calling subscriber, and
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`(3) producing a routing message identifying either a private network address or a
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`public network gateway. EX1001 at 14:24–35, EX1002 ¶ 21. The ’815 patent
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`specification concedes that “attributes” contained in caller profiles include standard
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`information such as location codes, country codes, and international dialing digits.
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`EX1001 at 18:1–54, EX1002, ¶ 25.
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`The ’815 patent describes “dialing profiles” that can contain criteria
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`associated with the calling subscriber that is used to classify the call. Figure 9 of
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`the ’815 patent (reproduced below) shows an example of a dialing profile. As
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`shown, a dialing profile can include information such as a country code or local
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`area codes associated with a caller, a username, a domain of the caller,
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`international dialing digits (IDD), and national dialing digits (NDD) associated
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`with the caller.
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`Thus,
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`the
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`dialing
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`profile
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`identifies where the caller is located and
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`the numbers the caller would need to
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`dial to make a local, national, or
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`international call.
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`Once a call is placed, a routing controller
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`receives a message such as a Session Initiation
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`Protocol (SIP) message having information such
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`as the number or ID of the caller, and the dialed number/ID of the callee, as shown
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`in Fig. 3 of the ’815 patent:
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`The system looks up information associated with the caller (such as the
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`caller ID/number in the dialing profile), and proceeds to identify matches between
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`the caller ID and the callee ID. For example, the phone numbers of the caller and
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`callee can be compared to determine whether there is a match in area codes or a
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`portion of the caller and callee usernames. As another example, certain dialed
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`digits can be recognized as initiating an international call, depending on the IDD
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`information associated with the caller. EX1001 at 21:8–22:60. The identified
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`matches are then classified using public/private criterion to determine whether the
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`call is a public network or private network call. Id. at 22:48–23:3. The system then
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`generates a routing message for the private or public call, and transmits the routing
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`message. Id. at 24:18–67, 26:37–45.
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`Prosecution History
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`B.
`The application was filed on April 30, 2009, EX1005 at 880–1,166, but was
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`granted a § 371 date of March 1, 2010. Id. at 847. The application was filed as a
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`national stage application of PCT No. PCT/CA2007/001956, with the PCT
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`claiming the priority of U.S. provisional application No. 60/856,212, filed
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`November 2, 2006. Id. at 911. Thus, the ’815 patent may have an effective filing
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`date of November 2, 2006, provided it contains and maintains full support in the
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`The Examiner opened prosecution in March 2013, by rejecting the original
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`fifty-nine claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102. EX1005 at 154–178. In response, the
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`applicant amended all of the pending independent claims to incorporate multiple
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`dependent claims, cancelled the incorporated dependent claims, and added 58 new
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`claims to the remaining claims. Id. at 95–136. The Examiner conducted a search
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`confined to specific terminology or specific patent subclasses. Id. at 88 (Ref. Nos.
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`S1–S13). In July 2013, the Examiner mailed a Notice of Allowance including an
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`Examiner’s Amendment that narrowed the scope of the independent claims. Id. at
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`54–81. There, the Examiner declared that the allowable subject matter in the
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`independent claims consisted of “matching one of calling attributes, retrieved from
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`a calling party’s profile, with at least a portion of a callee identifier, and based on
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`the match [identifying] a public or private network for call routing.” Id. at 80.
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`Notably, the “allowable subject matter” was first added to the independent claims
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`in the Examiner’s Amendment. Id. at 54–81.
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`VI. GROUNDS FOR STANDING
`Unified certifies that the ’815 patent is available for IPR and it is not barred
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`or estopped from requesting IPR challenging the ’815 patent on the grounds
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`identified. See 37 C.F.R. § 42.104(a). Specifically: (1) Unified is not the owner of
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`the ’815 patent; (2) Unified is not barred or estopped from requesting IPR; and (3)
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`patent.
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`A. Claim Construction
`Claim terms are given their ordinary and customary meaning as understood
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`by a POSA. Phillips v. AWH Corp., 415 F.3d 1303, 1312-13 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en
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`banc). A claim in an unexpired patent subject to inter partes review receives the
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`“broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent in
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`which it appears.” 37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b). The majority of the claims are common
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`terms that deserve their ordinary and customary meaning. Unified suggests the
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`following terms from the claims of the ’815 patent require construction.3
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`“Caller dialing profile”
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`1.
`Independent claims 1, 27, 28, 54, 73, 74, and 93 all specify that a “caller
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`dialing profile” is accessed or located, and the caller dialing profile comprises “a
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`plurality of calling attributes associated with the caller.” EX1001 at 36:20-22,
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`38:33-35, 60-62, 41:28-29, 43:20-22, 27-31, and 45:31-32. The specification
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`discusses the “caller dialing profile” or “dialing profile” with multiple examples.
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`3 The broadest reasonable interpretation should be applied to any claim terms not
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`addressed below, though Unified believes a claim construction under either a
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`Phillips standard or an interpretation under the broadest reasonable construction
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`For example, with respect to Fig. 9, the ’815 patent discusses a “data structure for a
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`dialing profile” which can include a “user name field,” a “domain field” and
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`“calling attributes.” EX1001 at 17:59-18:4, Fig. 9. The specification further states
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`that “dialing profiles represent calling attributes of respective subscribers.” Id. at
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`18:3-4.
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`Taking into account the examples of information included in the “caller
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`dialing profile” in the specification, and the inventor’s characterizations in the
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`specification, the term “caller dialing profile” should be construed to mean
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`“information associated with a caller.” This construction is consistent with the
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`breadth of the various examples of data that is associated with the caller in the ’815
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`patent.
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`“Calling attributes”
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`2.
`Independent claims 1, 27, 28, 54, 73, 74, and 93 all specify that a caller
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`dialing profile comprises “a plurality of calling attributes associated with the
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`caller.” EX1001 at 36:21-22, 38:34-35, 62, 41:29, 43:20-22, 28-29, 45:32. The
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`specification does not define the term “calling attributes,” and merely provides
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`examples such as “national dialing digits (NDD) . . . an international dialing digits
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`(IDD) . . . a country code . . . a local area codes . . . a caller minimum local
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`length . . . a caller maximum local length . . . a reseller . . . a maximum number of
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`concurrent calls . . . and a current number of concurrent calls.” EX1001 at 17:62–
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`67, FIGS. 9, 10.
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`Considering the specification’s examples of information related to called
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`numbers or call statistics, coupled with the lack of any explicit definition of the
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`term in the specification, the term “calling attributes” can reasonably be construed
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`to mean “information associated with a user, calls placed by the user, or calls
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`directed toward the user.”
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`“Means for receiving”
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`3.
`“Means for receiving” is a means-plus-function term in claim 28 (EX1001 at
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`38:57) that invokes 35 U.S.C. § 112, 6th paragraph. Broadly and reasonably, the
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`specification may provide the following structure to provide the claimed
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`“receiving” function: a call controller circuit 100 that receives messages (such as
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`an SIP message) via an input 108. See EX1001 at 15:63–64; 16:2–8.
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`“Means for locating a caller dialing profile”
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`4.
`“Means for locating a caller dialing profile” is a means-plus-function term in
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`claim 28 (EX1001 at 38:60) that invokes 35 U.S.C. § 112, 6th paragraph. Broadly
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`and reasonably, the specification may provide the following structure to provide
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`the claimed “locating a caller dialing profile” function: RC processor circuit (200).
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`See EX1001 at 17:46–56, Fig. 7.
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`“Means for determining a match”
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`“Means for determining a match” is a means-plus-function term in claim 28
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`(EX1001 at 38:63) that invokes 35 U.S.C. §112, 6th paragraph. Broadly and
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`reasonably, the specification provides the following structure to provide the
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`claimed “determining a match” function: Processor 202 of RC processor circuit
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`200. See EX1001 at 19:50–55, FIGS. 5B, 7.
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`“Means for classifying the call”
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`“Means for classifying the call” is a means-plus-function term in clam 28
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`(EX1001 at 38:66, 39:1) that invokes 35 U.S.C. §112, 6th paragraph. Broadly and
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`reasonably, the specification may provide the following structure to provide the
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`claimed “classifying the call” function: Processor 202 of RC processor circuit 200.
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`See EX1001 at 22:51–55, FIG. 7.
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`“Means for producing a [public/private] network routing
`message”
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`“Means for producing a [public/private] network routing message” is a
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`means-plus-function term in claims 28 and 93 (EX1001 at 39:4, 8, 45:36, 44) that
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`invokes 35 U.S.C. § 112, 6th paragraph. Broadly and reasonably, the specification
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`may provide the following structure to provide the claimed “producing a
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`[public/private] network routing message” function: Processor 202 of the RC
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`processing circuit 200. See EX1001 at 17:40–43, 20:39–40.
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`“Means for accessing a database”
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`“Means for accessing a database” is a means-plus-function term in claim 93
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`broadest reasonable construction standard, the specification provides the following
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`structure to provide the claimed “accessing a database” function: RC processing
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`circuit 200. See EX1001 at 17:46–56.
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`“Means for formatting said callee identifier”
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`“Means for formatting said callee identifier” is a means-plus-function term
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`in claim 34 (EX1001 at 39:40) that invokes 35 U.S.C. § 112, 6th paragraph.
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`Broadly and reasonably, the specification may provide the following structure to
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`provide the claimed “accessing a database” function: Processor 202 of the RC
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`processing circuit 200. See EX1001 at 19:55–60.
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`“Means for causing the private network routing message or the
`public network message to be communicated to a call
`controller”
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`“Means for causing the private network routing message or the public
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`network message to be communicated to a call controller” is a means-plus-function
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`term in claim 111 (EX1001 at 47:22-25) that invokes 35 U.S.C. § 112, 6th
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`paragraph. Broadly and reasonably, the specification provides the following
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`structure to provide the claimed “causing the . . . message to be communicated”
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`function: Processor 202 of the RC processing circuit 200. See EX1001 at 24:65–
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`VII. CLAIMS 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72, 73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 OF THE
`’815 PATENT ARE ANTICIPATED UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
`AND/OR UNPATENTABLE UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
`A.
`Turner is Prior Art Under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
`U.S. Patent No. 7,218,722 B1 (EX1003, “Turner”), was filed on December
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`18, 2000, and is prior art under at least 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) based on at least its
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`filing date. Turner predates the earliest priority date claimed in the ’815 patent
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`(November 2, 2006) by more than six years.
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`B.
`Kaczmarczyk is Prior Art Under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
`U.S. Patent No. 6,961,334 B1 (EX1004, “Kaczmarczyk”), filed on March 29,
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`2001, was patented on November 1, 2005. Kaczmarczyk is prior art under 35
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`U.S.C. § 102(b) because it was patented/published more than a year before the
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`earliest priority date claimed in the ’815 patent (November 2, 2006).
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`C. Ground 1: Turner anticipates claims 1, 2, 7, 27, 28, 29, 34, 54, 72,
`73, 74, 92, 93 and 111 under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)
`Turner discloses a computerized method and system for routing calls
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`between parties at different locations. EX1003, Abstract. Calling and called parties
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`can be located on private networks such as Internet Protocol networks connected to
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`a gateway, or on public networks such as a PSTN. EX1003, FIG. 1, EX1002 ¶ 36.
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`compared. Id. at 9:22-30, EX1002 1[ 37.
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`The call agent then sends a query to a directory server for a caller profile that
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`is associated with the caller, and the directory server retrieves the caller’s profile.
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`EXIOO3 at 22:9—15; FIG- 6, elements 602-606- The caller’s profile includes
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`The user profile and linked network address object (data structure) include
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`information associated with the caller such as a customer address (CA) and
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`network address (NA). EX1003 at 7:29–61. The network address and customer
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`address include information such as a telephone number or number indicative of a
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`location of the caller. Id. at 9:13–36, 10:25–53. For example, the CA and NA are
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`indicative of a network in which the caller is located, a gateway associated with the
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`caller, and/or a location of the caller. Id. The NA can be updated to reflect a current
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`location if the caller roams to a new location. Id. at 22:2–8. Thus, the data stored
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`and accessed by the Directory Server for a caller includes data associated with the
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`caller (caller attributes) such as addresses and preferences. EX1002 ¶ 39.
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`After retrieving the caller’s profile, the call agent determines whether the
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`called party is within the same gateway as the caller. EX1003 at 9:24–36. Turner’s
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`example discusses translating a called CA number to a NA, such as by translating
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`“2002” to “313-555-2002.” Id. The translated NA is then compared to the caller
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`number (313-555-2001), and the call agent determines that the matching numbers
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`(“333-555”) indicate that the caller and callee are within the same gateway. Id.
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`Another example from Turner discusses that a caller may dial a number
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`(3001), and that the call agent may assign the NA identifying the caller as “313-
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`555-2002.” EX1003 at 10:25–48. The call agent then queries the Directory Server,
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`which retrieves a user profile for the caller and translates the dialed number (3001)
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`to a NA for the callee—in this example it is “709-555.” Id. Based on the NA, the
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`call agent recognizes the network locations of the caller and callee and recognizes
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`that the called party is within