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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`MARSHALL DIVISION
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`Case No. 2:15-cv-00621
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`Jury Trial Requested
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`PARTHENON UNIFIED MEMORY
`ARCHITECTURE LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`APPLE INC.,
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`Defendant.
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`JOINT CLAIM CONSTRUCTION AND PREHEARING STATEMENT
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`Pursuant to the Court’s Docket Control Order and P.R. 4-3, Plaintiff Parthenon Unified
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`Memory Architecture LLC (“PUMA”) and Defendant Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) hereby submit their
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`Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement.
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`I.
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`CONSTRUCTION OF CLAIM TERMS ON WHICH THE PARTIES AGREE
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`The parties are in agreement on the following terms. Additionally, for the agreed
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`constructions of “bus,” “algorithmically translate the noncontiguous addresses to the contiguous
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`addresses,” and the “arbiter” terms, the parties are in agreement with the Court’s prior
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`constructions of these specific terms and request that the Court incorporate by reference its
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`reasoning for those terms as fully stated in the Court’s claim construction opinions in Case No.
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`2:14-cv-690 (Dkt. 155), Case No. 2:14-cv-902 (Dkt. 902) and Case No. 2:15-cv-225 (Dkt. 80) in
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`any claim construction opinion issued in the present case.
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`Term(s)
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`Agreed Construction
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`“bus”
`’789 patent: claims 1, 13
`’368 patent: claims 1, 5, 7, 13, 19, 20, 23
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`“a signal line or set of associated signal lines
`to which a number of devices are coupled and
`over which information may be transferred
`between them”
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 1 of 10
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`MARSHALL DIVISION
`
`
`Case No. 2:15-cv-00621
`
`Jury Trial Requested
`
`
`
`
`
`PARTHENON UNIFIED MEMORY
`ARCHITECTURE LLC,
`
`
`Plaintiff,
`
`v.
`
`
`APPLE INC.,
`
`
`Defendant.
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`
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`§
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`JOINT CLAIM CONSTRUCTION AND PREHEARING STATEMENT
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`Pursuant to the Court’s Docket Control Order and P.R. 4-3, Plaintiff Parthenon Unified
`
`Memory Architecture LLC (“PUMA”) and Defendant Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) hereby submit their
`
`Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement.
`
`I.
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`CONSTRUCTION OF CLAIM TERMS ON WHICH THE PARTIES AGREE
`
`The parties are in agreement on the following terms. Additionally, for the agreed
`
`constructions of “bus,” “algorithmically translate the noncontiguous addresses to the contiguous
`
`addresses,” and the “arbiter” terms, the parties are in agreement with the Court’s prior
`
`constructions of these specific terms and request that the Court incorporate by reference its
`
`reasoning for those terms as fully stated in the Court’s claim construction opinions in Case No.
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`2:14-cv-690 (Dkt. 155), Case No. 2:14-cv-902 (Dkt. 902) and Case No. 2:15-cv-225 (Dkt. 80) in
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`any claim construction opinion issued in the present case.
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`Term(s)
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`Agreed Construction
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`“bus”
`’789 patent: claims 1, 13
`’368 patent: claims 1, 5, 7, 13, 19, 20, 23
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`“a signal line or set of associated signal lines
`to which a number of devices are coupled and
`over which information may be transferred
`between them”
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 1 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94 Filed 02/16/16 Page 2 of 5 PageID #: 2465
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`’045 patent: claims 1, 4, 5, 12, 15
`’753 patent: claims 1, 7
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`“algorithmically translate the noncontiguous
`addresses to the contiguous addresses”
`’464 patent: claims 7, 22
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`“convert the noncontiguous addresses to the
`contiguous addresses according to at least one
`mathematical operation”
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`“screen and its circuitry”
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`“an adapter that processes images for a
`display device”
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`“circuitry that uses a priority scheme to
`determine which requesting device will gain
`access”
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`“display device”
`’368 patent: claims 1, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21
`’045 patent: claims 1, 4-6, 12, 13
`’753 patent: claims 1, 7
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`“display adapter”
`’368 patent: claims 2, 3
`’045 patent: claim 2
`’753 patent: claim 3
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`“arbiter”
`“arbitration circuit”
`“memory arbiter”
`“arbiter circuit”
`’789 patent: claims 1, 19
`’368 patent: claims 1, 7, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23
`’045 patent: claims 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15
`’753 patent: claims 1, 7
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`II.
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`DISPUTED CLAIM TERMS/PHRASES
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`The parties’ proposed construction for each disputed term or phrase is set forth in Appendix
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`A. PUMA’s identification of evidence is set forth in Appendix B and Apple’s identification of
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`evidence is set forth in Appendix C.
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`III. ANTICIPATED LENGTH OF TIME FOR CLAIM CONSTRUCTION HEARING
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`2
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 2 of 10
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`The Claim Construction Hearing is set to begin at 9:00 a.m. in Marshall, Texas before
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`Judge Payne on April 18, 2016. The parties anticipate that the Claim Construction hearing in this
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`matter will take no more than 3 hours total.
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`IV. ANTICIPATED WITNESSES AT THE CLAIM CONSTRUCTION HEARING
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`The parties do not anticipate calling any witnesses at the claim construction hearing.
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`V.
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`OTHER ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED AT A PREHEARING CONFERENCE
`PRIOR TO CLAIM CONSTRUCTION HEARING
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`At this time, the parties are not aware of any other issues that might be appropriately
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`addressed at a prehearing conference prior to the Claim Construction Hearing.
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`Dated: February 16, 2016
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`
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`/s/ Michael McBride
`Demetrios Anaipakos
`Texas Bar No. 00793258
`danaipakos@azalaw.com
`Amir Alavi
`Texas Bar No. 00793239
`aalavi@azalaw.com
`Michael McBride
`Texas Bar No. 24065700
`mmcbride@azalaw.com
`Alisa A. Lipski
`Texas Bar No. 24041345
`alipski@azalaw.com
`Justin Chen
`Texas Bar No. 24074204
`jchen@azalaw.com
`AHMAD, ZAVITSANOS, ANAIPAKOS,
`ALAVI & MENSING P.C.
`1221 McKinney Street, Suite 3460
`Houston, TX 77010
`Telephone: 713-655-1101
`Facsimile: 713-655-0062
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`T. John Ward, Jr.
`Texas Bar No. 00794818
`jw@wsfirm.com
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`3
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 3 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94 Filed 02/16/16 Page 4 of 5 PageID #: 2467
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`WARD & SMITH LAW FIRM
`P.O. Box 1231
`Longview, TX 75606-1231
`Telephone: 909-757-6400
`Facsimile: 909-757-2323
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`ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
`PARTHENON UNIFIED MEMORY
`ARCHITECTURE LLC
`
`
`/s/ Marc Belloli
`Margaret Elizabeth Day
`(CA Bar No. 177125)
`Admitted to Practice
`David L. Alberti (pro hac vice)
`Marc Belloli (pro hac vice)
`Nickolas Bohl
`FEINBERG DAY ALBERTI &
`THOMPSON LP
`1600 El Camino Real, Suite 280
`Menlo Park, CA 94025
`Telephone: (650) 618.4360
`Facsimile: (650) 618.4368
`eday@feinday.com
`dalberti@feinday.com
`nbohl@feinday.com
`Michael E. Jones (SBN: 10929400)
`Patrick C. Clutter (SBN: 2403634)
`POTTER MINTON, PC
`110 North College, Suite 500
`Tyler, Texas 75702
`Tel: 903-597-8311
`Fax: 903-593-0846
`mikejones@potterminton.com
`patrickclutter@potterminton.com
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`ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
`APPLE, INC.
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that all counsel of record who are deemed to have
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`consented to electronic service are being served with a copy of this document via the Court’s
`CM/ECF system per Local Rule CV-5(a)(3) on February 16, 2016.
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`/s/ Michael McBride
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`5
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 5 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94-1 Filed 02/16/16 Page 1 of 5 PageID #: 2469
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`APPENDIX A
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 6 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94-1 Filed 02/16/16 Page 2 of 5 PageID #: 2470
`APPENDIX A – THE PARTIES’ PROPOSED CONSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH CLAIM TERM
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`Term(s)
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`PUMA’s Construction
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`Apple’s Construction
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`“bus with a bandwidth equal to or
`greater than the required bandwidth to
`operate in real time.”
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`Indefinite.
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`“fast enough to keep up with an input
`data stream”
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`Indefinite.
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`No construction necessary.
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`Alternative constructions:
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`a. “directly or indirectly connectable to
`the memory/main memory/system
`memory using no more than one bus”
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`1
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`“fast bus”
`’368 patent: claim 7
`’045 patent: claim 4
`a. “in real time” / “real time operation” /
`“operate in real time”
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`’789 patent: claims 1, 13
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`
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`b. “the bus having a sufficient
`bandwidth to enable the decoder to
`access the memory and operate in real
`time when the first device
`simultaneously accesses the bus"
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`‘789 patent: claim 1
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`
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`c. “wherein the bus has a bandwidth of
`at least twice the bandwidth required for
`the decoder to operate in real time”
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`‘789 patent: claim 13
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`a. “coupleable to a main memory” /
`“coupleable to a memory” /
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`‘045 patent: claims 1, 4, 12
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`No.
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`1.
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`2.
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`3.
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 7 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94-1 Filed 02/16/16 Page 3 of 5 PageID #: 2471
`APPENDIX A – THE PARTIES’ PROPOSED CONSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH CLAIM TERM
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`Apple’s Construction
`b. “directly or indirectly connected to the
`memory/main memory/system memory
`using no more than one bus”
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`c. “directly or indirectly connecting to
`the memory using no more than one bus”
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`PUMA’s Construction
`a. “directly or indirectly connectable
`to a memory/main memory”
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`b. “directly or indirectly connected to
`a memory/main memory”
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`c. “directly or indirectly connecting to
`a memory/main memory”
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`Term(s)
`‘753 patent: claim 7
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`b. “coupled to a memory” “coupled to
`the memory” / “coupled to the main
`memory” / “coupled to a system
`memory”
`‘789 patent: claims 1
`‘368 patent: claims 1, 7, 13, 20
`‘045 patent: claims 1, 4, 5
`‘753 patent: claims 1
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`c. “coupling to the memory”
`‘789 patent: claim 1
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`No.
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`4.
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`“control circuit”
`’464 patent: claims 1, 2, 7-13, 16-24, 32
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`No construction necessary.
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`a. “directly supplied”
`’368 patent: claim 3
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`b. “directly supplies”
`’368 patent: claims 14, 21
`’045 patent: claims 2, 6, 13
`’753 patent: claim 3
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`5.
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`a. “supplied without being stored in
`main memory for purposes of
`decoding subsequent images”
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`b. “supplies without being stored in
`main memory for purposes of
`decoding subsequent images”
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`2
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`“an electronic control device that is
`separate from the CPU or processor and
`that interacts with the operating system”
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`a. “the images directly supplied to the
`display adapter” means “images that are
`provided from the decoder to the display
`adaptor without being stored in the main
`memory”
`b. the decoder directly supplies a display
`adapter [device] with an image” means
`“an image is provided from the decoder
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 8 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94-1 Filed 02/16/16 Page 4 of 5 PageID #: 2472
`APPENDIX A – THE PARTIES’ PROPOSED CONSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH CLAIM TERM
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`Term(s)
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`PUMA’s Construction
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`No construction necessary.
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`Apple’s Construction
`to the display adaptor [device] without
`being stored in the main memory”
`“a device or boundary that attaches to the
`bus to communicate information”
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`No.
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`6.
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`7.
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`8.
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`9.
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`“bus interfaces coupled to the fast bus”
`’368 patent: claim 7
`’045 patent: claim 4
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`“wherein the control circuit translates
`the requested contiguous addresses of
`the block of memory to requested
`noncontiguous addresses”
`’464 patent: claim 1
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`“the second bus interface of the central
`processing circuit” and “the first bus
`interface of the central processing
`circuit”
`’368 patent: claim 7
`’045 patent claim 4
`a. “selectively providing access … to
`the memory”
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`‘789 patent: claim 1
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`b. “controlling the access to said main
`memory”
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`‘368 patent: claim 1
`’045 patent: claim 1
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`No construction necessary.
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`Indefinite.
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`No construction necessary.
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`Indefinite.
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`No construction necessary.
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`“allowing/allow only one device to
`access the [main/system] memory at a
`time”
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`3
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
`Page 9 of 10
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`Case 2:15-cv-00621-JRG-RSP Document 94-1 Filed 02/16/16 Page 5 of 5 PageID #: 2473
`APPENDIX A – THE PARTIES’ PROPOSED CONSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH CLAIM TERM
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`No.
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`Term(s)
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`PUMA’s Construction
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`Apple’s Construction
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`c. “control access to the main memory” /
`“control access to the memory”
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`‘753 patent: claim 1, 7
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`d. “controlling the access to the system
`memory”/ “control access to the system
`memory”
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`‘368 patent: claim 13
`’045 patent: claim 5
`“memory interface”
`’789 patent: claim 1
`’753 patent: claim 7
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`10.
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`No construction necessary.
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`“a device or boundary that attaches to a
`memory bus to communicate
`information”
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`4
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`Apple Exhibit 1018
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