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`U.S. Patent No. 7,116,710
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`DEPOSITION OF DARIUSH DIVSALAR, PH.D.
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`Los Angeles, California
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`Tuesday, January 30, 2018
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`Reported By:
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`DEPOSITION OF DARIUSH DIVSALAR, PH.D, taken
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`WILMERHALE
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`BY: JAMES DOWD, ESQ.
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`WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
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` MICHAEL ROSATO, ESQ. (Telephonic appearance)
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` QUINCY LU, ESQ. (Telephonic appearance)
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`QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN
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`respect to Hui Jin's deposition in the IPRs and was
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`DARIUSH DIVSALAR, PH.D,
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` Q Good morning, Dr. Divsalar.
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` A Good morning.
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` A Dariush Divsalar.
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` Q Where do you work?
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` A JPL. Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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` A I am an employee of Caltech, right.
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` Q What's your job title?
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` A Fellow of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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` Q Now have you testified before?
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` A Yes.
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` A Two times.
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` Q You said two times?
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` Q And are those the January 15, 2015, and
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` Q Your office is at JPL?
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` THE WITNESS: I don't know.
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` A Right.
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` A Yes.
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` A I met him at JPL. He was consultant at JPL.
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` THE WITNESS: Yes.
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` A I don't remember because usually, you know,
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` THE WITNESS: No.
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` THE WITNESS: I don't remember but I believe
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` A Since high school?
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` THE WITNESS: We are considered as an
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` A No. There was Digital Communication 1 and
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` A I don't remember but maybe.
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` THE WITNESS: What do you mean by product?
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: Have you worked on any project
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` A Yeah.
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` THE WITNESS: They define many things
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` THE WITNESS: The error correction codes,
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`turbocodes definitely, which we propose for the
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: It uses certain permutations?
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` A Circulant permutations.
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` THE WITNESS: No. That's type of
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: Has JPL actually implemented
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` THE WITNESS: Yeah. They implemented on, as
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: And when you say the FPGA --
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` A Yeah.
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` Q -- what FPGA?
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` A Field-Programmable Gate Array.
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` A Mars Orbiter and as far as I know maybe for
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`(00728), CALTECH-EXHIBIT 2032, Curriculum Vitae,
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` MR. ARGENTI: So this is a new exhibit that
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` MR. DOWD: I believe this is actually also
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`Exhibit 2032 --
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` MR. ARGENTI: Okay.
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` MR. DOWD: -- to IPR 210 as identified at
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`1056.
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` A Yeah. My C.V.
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` A I believe so.
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` Q Okay. Is it accurate?
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` A It looks like.
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` Q Now if you turn to starting on Page 10,
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` A Yes.
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`right?
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` A Yeah.
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` Q Those all relate to error correction codes?
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` A Those all relate on error -- not all of them
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` A Yeah.
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` Q -- the paper that's listed as No. 66,
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`"Coding Theorems for 'Turbo-Like' Codes" --
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` A Yes.
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` MR. ARGENTI: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: Yes.
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` A Yeah. I don't remember.
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` THE WITNESS: That's my weak estimate.
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` MR. ARGENTI: Objection; form, scope.
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` THE WITNESS: Yes. Some.
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` MR. ARGENTI: Objection; form, scope.
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` THE WITNESS: I believe so.
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: And when you attend Allerton
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`do you have to sign a nondisclosure agreement or any
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`confidentiality agreement of any kind?
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` MR. ARGENTI: Objection; form, scope.
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` THE WITNESS: I don't know. I believe no.
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: Okay. And so you as a member
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`of the public attending Allerton, you are free to
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`discuss any of the ideas that you hear there?
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` MR. ARGENTI: Objection; form, scope.
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` THE WITNESS: Usually, you know, whatever it
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`is in a paper that you want to present, yes.
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: And so with respect to the
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`community of scientists and researchers who are
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`working on error correction codes, am I correct it
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`is a fairly small community?
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` MR. ARGENTI: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: What do you mean by small?
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` Q BY MR. DOWD: That it is in the dozens or
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`less than a hundred?
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` A In what year?
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` Q 1998.
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` A '98. Maybe around a hundred, maybe.
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` Q Okay. And that was true in 1999 as well?
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` A Yeah. It eventually increased, increased,
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`you know, over the years the number of people
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`working on the coding, on error correction codes.
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` Q Sure. But back in '99 to 2000 it was
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`roughly a core of a hundred people or so?
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