`U.S. Patent No. 8,457,113
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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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`YMAX CORPORATION,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`FOCAL IP, LLC,
`Patent Owner
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`Inter Partes Review No.: Unassigned
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,457,113
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`DECLARATION OF TAL LAVIAN, Ph.D.,
`IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR INTER PARTES REVIEW OF CLAIMS
`1, 2, 8, 11, and 15-19 OF U.S. PATENT NO. 8,457,113
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I. Background and Qualifications...........................................................................6
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`II. Legal Understanding .........................................................................................10
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`A. Anticipation .................................................................................................10
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`B. Obviousness.................................................................................................11
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`III. Person Of Ordinary Skill In The Art..............................................................12
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`IV. Summary Of The ’113 Patent.........................................................................13
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`Priority Date ................................................................................................13
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`B. Overview Of The '113 Patent......................................................................14
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`State Of The Art ..........................................................................................17
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`The PSTN / Circuit Switching Networks.................................................18
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`Signaling...................................................................................................21
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`Packet-Switching Networks: The Internet and Voice over IP................21
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`Processing A Call Between A Traditional Telephone (Over The PSTN)
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`And A User Of Voice Over IP (Over The Internet) .........................................23
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`V. Claim Construction ...........................................................................................25
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`A. Background..................................................................................................25
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`B.
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`C.
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`“web enabled” .............................................................................................25
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`“coupled to”.................................................................................................25
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`“switching facility”......................................................................................27
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`“a call processing system serving as an intelligent interconnection between
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`at least one packet network and a second network coupled to a switching facility
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`of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network comprising
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`edge switches for routing calls from and to subscribers within a local geographic
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`area and switching facilities for routing calls to other edge switches or other
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`switching facilities local or in other geographic areas” (Claim 1).......................31
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`F.
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`“tandem access controller”.........................................................................35
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`Summary of Claim Interpretation ...............................................................35
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`VI. SUMMARY OF PRIOR ART .......................................................................36
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`Shtivelman: WO 99/14924..........................................................................36
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`B. O’Neal: U.S. Patent No. 6,463,145............................................................39
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`VII. THERE IS A REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE CHALLENGED
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`CLAIMS ARE UNPATENTABLE.........................................................................42
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`A. Ground 1: Claims 1, 2, 8, 15, and 17-19 are Anticipated by Shtivelman...42
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`Claim 1 .....................................................................................................43
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`Claim 2 .....................................................................................................51
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`Claim 8 .....................................................................................................51
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`Claim 15 ...................................................................................................52
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`Claim 17 ...................................................................................................53
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`Claim 18 ...................................................................................................53
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`Claim 19 ...................................................................................................54
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`B. Ground 2: Claims 1, 2, 8, 11, and 17-19 are Anticipated by O'Neal ..........54
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`Claim 1 .....................................................................................................55
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`Claim 2 .....................................................................................................62
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`Claim 8 .....................................................................................................62
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`Claim 11 ...................................................................................................64
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`Claim 17 ...................................................................................................65
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`Claim 18 ...................................................................................................65
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`Claim 19 ...................................................................................................66
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`C. Ground 3: Claims 1, 11, and 15-17 Are Obvious In Light Of O'Neal........68
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`Claim 1 .....................................................................................................68
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`2.
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`Claim 11 ...................................................................................................70
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`Claim 15 ...................................................................................................71
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`Claim 16 ...................................................................................................72
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`Claim 17 ...................................................................................................74
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`D. Ground 4: Claims 1, 2, 8, 15, and 17-19 Are Obvious over Shtivelman in
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`Light of O'Neal .....................................................................................................74
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`Claim 1 .....................................................................................................74
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`Claims 2, 8, 15, 17, 18, 19 .......................................................................78
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`Declaration of Tal Lavian, Ph.D.
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`I, Tal Lavian, declare as follows:
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`1.
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`I make this declaration based upon my own personal knowledge and,
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`if called upon to testify, would testify competently to the matters contained herein.
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`2.
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`I have been asked to provide technical assistance in connection with
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`inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 8,457,113 (“the ’113 Patent”).
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`3.
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`This declaration is a statement of my opinions on issues related to the
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`invalidity of claims 1, 2, 8, 11, and 15-19 of the '113 Patent.
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`I.
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`Background and Qualifications
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`My qualifications are stated more fully in my curriculum vitae. Ex.
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`1016. Here I provide a brief summary of my qualifications.
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`I have more than 25 years of experience in the networking,
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`telecommunications, internet, and software fields. I received a Ph.D. in Computer
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`Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006 and obtained a
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`Master’s of Science (“M.Sc.”) degree in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv
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`University, Israel, in 1996. In 1987, I obtained a Bachelor of Science (“B.Sc.”) in
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`Mathematics and Computer Science, also from Tel Aviv University.
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`I am currently employed by the University of California at Berkeley
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`and was appointed as a lecturer and Industry Fellow in the Center of
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`Entrepreneurship and Technology (“CET”) as part of UC Berkeley College of
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`Engineering. I have been with the University of California at Berkeley since 2000
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`where I served as Berkeley Industry Fellow, Lecturer, Visiting Scientist, Ph.D.
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`Candidate, and Nortel’s Scientist Liaison, where some positions and projects were
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`done concurrently, and others, sequentially.
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`7.
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`I have more than 25 years of experience as a scientist, educator and
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`technologist. For eleven years from 1996 to 2007, I worked for Bay Networks and
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`Nortel Networks. Bay Networks was in the business of making and selling
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`computer network hardware and software. Nortel Networks acquired Bay
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`Networks in 1998, and I continued to work at Nortel after the acquisition.
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`Throughout my tenure at Bay and Nortel, I held positions including Principal
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`Scientist, Principal Architect, Principal Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and
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`led the development and research involving a number of networking technologies.
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`I led the efforts of Java technologies at Bay Networks and Nortel Networks. In
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`addition, during 1999-2001, I served as the President of the Silicon Valley Java
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`User Group with over 800 active members from many companies in the Silicon
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`Valley. From 2008 to 2008, I worked as a communications consultant at Ixia,
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`where researched and developed advanced network communications testing
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`technologies.
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`8.
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`Prior to that, from 1994 to 1995, I worked as a software engineer and
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`team leader for Aptel Communications, designing and developing mobile wireless
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`devices and network software products.
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`These telecommunications cellular
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`devices provided short messaging service (SMS) between base stations and mobile
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`devices. In addition, I developed a network protocols for the base stations and the
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`mobile wireless devices. Furthermore, I developed a GPS-based application to
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`track the quality of signals in urban areas between the mobile devices and the base
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`stations. From 1990 to 1993, I worked as a software engineer and team leader at
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`Scitex Ltd., where I developed system and network communications tools (mostly
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`in C and C++). From 1987 to 1990, I worked as a software engineer and team
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`leader at Shalev, where I developed real-time software and algorithms (mostly in C
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`and C++). From 1983 to 1987, as a student, I worked as a software engineer on
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`several part time projects.
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`9.
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`I have extensive experience in telecommunications and network
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`communications technologies, including routing and switching architectures and
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`protocols including Multi-Protocol Label Switching Networks, Layer 2 and Layer
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`3 Virtual Private Networks, Voice over IP (VoIP), telephony systems, PSTN
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`networks, circuit switching, and Pseudowire technologies.
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`10. Much of my work for Nortel Networks (mentioned above) involved
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`the research and development of these technologies.
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`For example, I wrote
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`software for Bay Networks and Nortel Networks switches and routers, developed
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`network technologies for the Accelar 8600 family of switches and routers, the
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`OPTera 3500 SONET switches, the OPTera 5000 DWDM family, and the Alteon
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`L4-7 switching product
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`family.
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`I wrote software for Java based device
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`management including software interface to the device management and network
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`management for the Accelar routing switch family network management system.
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`11.
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`I am named as a co-inventor on more than 80 issued patents and I
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`have co-authored more than 25 scientific publications, journal articles, and peer-
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`reviewed papers. Furthermore, I am a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical
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`and Electronics Engineers (“IEEE”).
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`12.
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`I currently serve as a Principal Scientist at my company Telecomm
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`Net Consulting Inc., where I develop network communication technologies and
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`provide research and consulting in advanced technologies, mainly in computer
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`networking and Internet technologies. In addition, I serve as a Co-Founder and
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`Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of VisuMenu, Inc., where I design and develop
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`architecture of visual IVR technologies for smartphones and wireless mobile
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`devices in the area of network communications. The backend architecture
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`implements a telephone Private Branch Exchange (“PBX”) that makes Session
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`Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) based Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) telephone
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`calls to other SIP trunks and telephone services, such as Public Switch Telephone
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`Network (“PSTN”).
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`The system is based on cloud networking and cloud
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`computing utilizing Amazon Web Services. I have extensive experience with PBX,
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`telecommunications systems, networking equipment, and call centers telephony
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`systems. Additional details of my background are set forth in my curriculum vitae
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`(see Ex. 1016), which provides a more complete description of my educational
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`background and work experience.
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`II.
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`Legal Understanding
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`13. My opinions are also informed by my understanding of the relevant
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`law, although I am not a lawyer and do not intend to testify about legal issues. I
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`understand that the patentability analysis is conducted on a claim-by-claim basis
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`and that there are several possible reasons that a patent claim may be found to be
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`unpatentable.
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`14.
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`I understand that earlier publications and patents may act to render a
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`patent unpatentable for one of two reasons: (1) anticipation, and (2) obviousness.
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`A.
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`15.
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`Anticipation
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`I understand that a single piece of prior art “anticipates” a claim if
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`each and every element of the claim is disclosed in that prior art. I further
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`understand that, where a claim element is not explicitly disclosed in a prior art
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`reference, the reference may nonetheless anticipate a claim if the missing claim
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`element is necessarily present in the apparatus disclosed, or is a natural result of
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`the method disclosed—that
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`is,
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`the missing element
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`is “inherent” in what
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`is
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`disclosed.
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`B.
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`16.
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`Obviousness
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`Second, I understand that the prior art may render a patent claim
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`“obvious.” I understand that two or more pieces of prior art that each disclose
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`fewer than all elements of a patent claim may nevertheless be combined to render a
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`patent claim obvious if the combination of the prior art collectively discloses all
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`elements of the claim and one of ordinary skill in the art at the time would have
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`been motivated to combine the prior art. I understand that this motivation to
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`combine need not be explicit in any of the prior art, but may be inferred from the
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`knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the patent was filed. I also
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`understand that one of ordinary skill in the art is not an automaton, but is a person
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`having ordinary creativity.
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`17.
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`I further understand that one or more pieces of prior art that disclose
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`fewer than all of the elements of a patent claim may render a patent claim obvious
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`if including the missing element would have been obvious to one of skill in the art
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`at the time of the alleged invention (that is, if the missing element represents only
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`an insubstantial difference over the prior art, or a reconfiguration of a known
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`system).
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`18.
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`I understand that
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`the obviousness analysis must
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`focus on the
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`knowledge available to one of skill in the art at the time of the invention in order to
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`avoid impermissible hindsight. I further understand that the obviousness inquiry
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`assumes that the person having ordinary skill in the art would have knowledge of
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`all relevant references available at the time of the invention.
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`III. Person Of Ordinary Skill In The Art
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`19.
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`It is my opinion that a person of ordinary skill in the art with respect
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`to the ’113 patent in 1999-2000 would have a bachelor’s degree in electrical
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`engineering, computer science, or the equivalent thereof and approximately 2 years
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`of professional experience within the field of telecommunications or network
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`communications.
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`20.
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`The ’113 patent concerns the basic architecture of the telephone
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`network that has existed in the United States for many decades, as well as basic
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`internet
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`technology that was well known by 1999-2000. These topics were
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`covered in detail by that time in books, in publications by standards bodies, and by
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`vendors that provided products and solutions in these areas. Because the
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`technology involved in the ’113 patent involves well-known technologies and
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`functionalities, an engineer or computer scientist with approximately 2 years of
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`experience in telecommunications would be well-versed in the concepts disclosed
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`in the ’113 patent.
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`21. My opinions regarding the level of ordinary skill in the art are based
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`on, among other things, my over 25 years of experience in the field of
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`telecommunications, network communications, computer science and engineering,
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`my understanding of the basic qualifications that would be relevant to an engineer
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`or scientist tasked with investigating methods and systems in the relevant area, and
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`my familiarity with the backgrounds of colleagues and co-workers, both past and
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`present.
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`IV.
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`Summary Of The ’113 Patent
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`A.
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`Priority Date
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`22.
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`The face of the ’113 patent reflects a chain of patent applications
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`dating back to May 4, 2000.
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`I have been informed that in pending litigation
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`against Petitioner YMax Corporation in which the ’113 patent is being asserted, the
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`plaintiff asserting infringement has stated that the claims of the ’113 patent may be
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`entitled to a priority date as early as June 1, 1999. For this declaration, I will
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`assume that the '113 Patent is entitled to the filing date of May 4, 2000, and that it
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`may be entitled to an invention date as early as June 1, 1999.
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`B.
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`Overview Of The '113 Patent
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`23. What the specification of the ’113 Patent describes as the alleged
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`invention is rather different from what the claims recite.
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`24.
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`The '113 Patent summarizes its alleged invention as relating to “a
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`system for allowing a subscriber to select features of the subscriber’s telephone
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`service and to various novel features that can be selected.” Ex. 1001 at 1:23-26.
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`25.
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`The specification explains that telephone companies offer optional
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`features such as call forwarding. Id. at 1:52-54, 2:17. However, the specification
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`continues, “these features typically require access from [the calling party or called
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`party's telephones] and are extremely awkward to program. The user interaction is
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`not only awkward,
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`it
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`is limited and requires interaction with the telephone
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`company to provision them.
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`In other words, past systems for provisioning,
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`meaning addition, modification, or control of telephone features, required a
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`subscriber to make the feature selection through the telephone business office.
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`Central office workers would then implement the provisioning under request of the
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`business office.” Id. at 2:4-16.
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`26.
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`To address this alleged problem,
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`the specification discloses the
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`alleged invention of using a website interface for configuring telephone system
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`features like call waiting instead of having to call
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`the telephone company's
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`customer service line. See id. at 2:56-64 (“SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION: A
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`system for allowing a subscriber to remotely control features is described herein
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`along with various telephone features that may be programmed into the system. A
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`subscriber may be any customer using the telephone service,
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`in contrast
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`to
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`employees of the PSTN [the traditional telephone network]…”); Id. at 5:16-24
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`(“FIG. 1 illustrates the preferred method for an authorized subscriber to modify the
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`3rd-party control criteria by means of the world wide web … The subscriber 12
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`interacts with the web 22 via the Internet to quickly and easily specify the
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`enhanced 3rd-party call control features.”) This “eliminat[es] the need to go
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`through the telephone company (telco) business office.” Id. at 3:24-27.
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`27.
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`The patent specification also spends many columns detailing two
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`allegedly new telephone features: branch calling, and caller ID-based call routing.
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`See id. at 7:54-12-20. Indeed, the title of the patent is "Branch Calling and Caller
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`ID Based Call Routing Telephone Features."
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`28.
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`29.
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`There are two notable facts in connection with these disclosures.
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`First, by July 1, 1999, there was nothing inventive about setting up a
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`website for configuring telephone options rather than having to call customer
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`service. Using a website to configure telephone features was already in the prior
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`art. As one example, U.S. Patent No. 6,463,145 to O'Neal et al. (“O'Neal”)
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`discloses a system that allows a user
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`to “review and/or modify [their]
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`communication options” (such as “call forwarding”) over the world wide web
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`using a “user computer 100” in communication with a “web-site” and a “web
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`server 122.” Ex. 1003 at 16:36-64, 7:45-8:22, 11:26-51, Fig. 1.
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`30. As a further example, U.S. Patent No. 5,958,016 to Chang et al.
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`(“Chang”) discloses a system where the user can “review and/or change” their
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`telephone “service control information” (such as “chang[ing] the 'forward to'
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`number”) over the world wide web. Ex. 1004 at 18:33-21:27, 2:54-67.
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`In
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`explaining the motivation for this invention, Chang notes that “[i]t
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`is too
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`cumbersome to require the subscriber to call
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`the local
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`telephone company's
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`business office and request each and every one of the routine changes” and that
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`“[a] need therefore still exists for a technique which will enable any subscriber to
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`personally access and control their AIN ['Advanced Intelligent Network'] services
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`from a general purpose computer without specially developed hardware or
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`software interfaces.” Ex. 1004 at 2:54-67, 4:39-42.
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`31.
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`Even the '113 Patent itself admits that web-enabled telephone feature
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`configuration was already known: “Today,
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`there are web-based companies
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`managing 3rd-party call control, via the toll-switch network, which allow users to
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`enter call control information through a web portal.” Ex. 1003 at 1:30-40.
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`32.
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`This is not surprising because by June of 1999, there were over 3
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`million websites on the web,
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`including Yahoo (launched in 1994), Amazon
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`(launched in 1995), and eBay (launched in 1995). See Ex. 1010. Indeed, in 1996 –
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`over two years prior to June 1, 1999 – eBay hosted over 250,000 auctions that
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`received over one million bids. See Ex. 1013.
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`33.
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`Second, in any event, none of the patent claims challenged in the
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`accompanying petition (the “challenged claims”) focus on using a website to
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`configure telephone options, and none recite either branch calling or caller ID-
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`based call routing.
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`34.
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`Instead, the challenged claims, drafted approximately a decade after
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`the filing of the first priority application, are directed primarily to a call processing
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`system that routes calls over both the traditional telephone network (the PSTN, a
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`circuit switched-based network) and over the internet (a packet switched-based
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`network). However, as shown below, routing calls over both the PSTN and the
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`internet was also already in the prior art by June 1, 1999.
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`C.
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`State Of The Art
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`35. As explained below, the technology claimed in the ’113 patent was
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`well known in the telecommunications field by June 1, 1999. The ’113 patent
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`concerns the basic architecture of the telephone network that has existed in the
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`United States for many decades, as well as basic Internet technology that was well
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`known by 1999-2000. These topics were covered in detail by that time in books, in
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`publications by standards bodies, and by vendors that provided products and
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`solutions in these areas. Exhibits 1021-1026 are just few examples of books,
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`standard bodies publications and products at this time period.
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`1.
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`The PSTN / Circuit Switching Networks
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`36.
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`The PSTN (public switched telephone network)
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`is the world’s
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`collection of interconnected circuit-switching telephone networks.
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`37.
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`In the United States, the PSTN is the conventional telephone network,
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`primarily built by AT&T when it was “the” telephone company in the United
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`States. Telephone calls have been made over the PSTN in the United States for
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`over a century.
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`In the United States, the PSTN is a countrywide network of switches
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`connected to each other by wires. The wires and switches between them connect
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`the telephone of a calling party to the telephone of the called party. Once a
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`telephone call between two landline telephones is established, there is a continuous
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`physical path of wires, linked by one or more switches, between the telephones at
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`each end of the call that is dedicated solely to that call. This is the meaning of the
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`term “circuit switching.” The term refers to the switching of infrastructure from
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`one dedicated use to another. The network focus is on circuit-based, or connection-
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`oriented, systems designed for delivery of voice communications.
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`39.
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`Even more specifically, the PSTN uses a hierarchy of switches. This
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`makes it possible to scale the telecommunications network to accommodate a large
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`number of end users across the country. Traffic is managed between the various
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`switching offices depending on the type of traffic that was to be connected: local
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`traffic, long distance traffic, and international traffic.
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`40.
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`The switches in the PSTN use a five-level hierarchy: edge or end
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`(class 5), toll or tandem (class 4), primary (class 3), sectional (class 2) and regional
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`(class 1). Landline phones in people’s houses are generally connected to a
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`geographically local class 5 switch (also be called an edge switch, end switch, or
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`central office switch). Tandem/Class 4 switches generally connect edge/class 5
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`switches together, although nearby class 5 switches can be connected directly. In
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`the PSTN, class 2 and 3 switches are used infrequently, and class 4 switches can be
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`connected to one another as well as by a class 1 switch. The basic architecture of
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`the PSTN can therefore be illustrated by the following diagram:
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`41.
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`The PSTN switch hierarchy does not mandate physical separation.
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`Switches from one or more adjacent classes (specifically edge and tandem) can be
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`located together in the same physical facility. A combined class 4/class 5 switch is
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`often called a “hybrid” switch.
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`42. When a telephone call is placed on the PSTN, the call typically travels
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`from the caller’s phone to the edge switch in the caller’s local central office.
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`Unless the recipient is in the same geographical area and directly connected to the
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`same central office, the call is then typically routed to one or more tandem
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`switches (in sequence), until it reaches the edge switch that is directly connected to
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`the recipient’s phone, and finally to the recipient’s phone. The switches use the
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`telephone number dialed by the caller to know where to route the call. Thus, the
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`network of switches enables the communication network to connect users either
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`within or outside a local geographic area.
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`2.
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`Signaling
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`43.
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`In addition to carrying voice communications, the PSTN also carries
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`signaling, which is information used to control the call. Signaling communicates
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`information the network needs to operate, such as the signal sent to the local
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`central office from a telephone when the handset is picked up that notifies the
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`central office to send the telephone a dial tone, or the signal from the central office
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`that tells a telephone to ring because there is an incoming call. The protocol that is
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`used for signaling on the PSTN is called Signalling System 7, or SS7.1
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`44.
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`The SS7 signaling protocol was first issued by CCITT (for Comite
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`Consultatif International Telephonique et Telegraphique, now known as the ITU-T
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`for
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`Telecommunication
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`Standardization
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`Sector
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`of
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`the
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`International
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`telecommunications Union,
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`the primary international body for cooperative
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`telecommunications standards) in 1980 (and was revised in 1984, 1988, and 1992).
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`3.
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`Packet-Switching Networks: The Internet and Voice over
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`45. As explained above, the PSTN is a circuit-switched network, which
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`requires a dedicated point-to-point connection during a phone call. In contrast, the
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`internet is a packet-switched network. There is no dedicated route between two
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`computers that are communicating over the internet. Rather, information to be
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`transmitted through the internet is broken down into small blocks called packets,
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`each of which includes the address of the destination computer. Each packet may
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`travel a different route through the connected parts of the internet before arriving at
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`the destination computer. The packets are then reassembled at the destination
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`computer.
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`46.
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`TCP/IP is a collection of protocols used for, among other things,
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`sending information through the internet. The “IP” stands for Internet Protocol.
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`47.
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`Voice over IP (VoIP). VoIP is the transmission of voice that has
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`been converted into digital packets of data using the Internet Protocol. VoIP
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`communications typically take place over the internet, though they could use a
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`private network.
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`48. As the ‘113 patent admits, VoIP was invented and used before the
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`alleged invention of the ‘113 patent. See Ex. 1001 at 2:51-54 (“There are Voice
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`Over Internet Protocol (VoiP) products emerging that provide better user interfaces
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`and control but they do not take advantage and [sic] voice quality of the PSTN.”)
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`49.
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`Indeed, a public domain VoIP application NetFone (later called Speak
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`Freely) was released in 1991 by Autodesk. See Ex. 1018.
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`50.
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`The first commercial internet VoIP application, called Internet Phone,
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`was released by Petitioner’s predecessor VocalTec Communications in February of
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`1995.
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`4.
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`Processing A Call Between A Traditional Telephone (Over
`The PSTN) And A User Of Voice Over IP (Over The
`Internet)
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`51. U.S. Patent No. 6,031,836 (the Haserodt patent), the application for
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`which was filed several years before the earliest application in the chain leading to
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`the ‘113 patent, discloses not
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`just Voice over IP telephony, but also voice
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`communication between a VoIP user and a PSTN user, processing calls using
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`both a packet-switched network and a circuit-switched network. See Ex. 1015 at
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`1:10-17 (“It is known in the communications arts that voice calls can be carried by
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`the Internet (or some other data transport network) between a pair of Internet
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`phones or voice-enabled computers. It is also k