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`on page 16. Fair?
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`'011 patent.
` Q. So for example, in paragraph 59, after
`describing some problems that existed at the time
`of the invention, you state your opinion that,
`"The methods and systems described and claimed by
`the '011 and '394 patents solve these problems by
`allowing the user to enter a search query for an
`item, where each item has a name comprising one or
`more words."
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` A. Yes, it certainly says that. Yes.
` Q. And in paragraph 60, you give opinions
`regarding how an index is created using the
`claimed invention, correct?
` A. I mean, this is part of my opinion
`regarding index, yeah.
` Q. And in paragraph 62, you provide part of
`your opinions regarding an example search using
`the claimed invention, correct?
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`Dr. Bovik, that in the invention of the
`'011 patent, "Users search for items by
`incrementally inputting unresolved overloaded keys
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`report, you reproduce Figures 6A and 6B of the
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`'011 patent, the user has entered the numbers 866
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`search results for that user input appear in
`Figure 6B; is that fair?
` A. I think that -- yeah. I don't see any
`problem with that.
` Q. And your opinion is that the search
`depicted in Figures 6A and 6B is an example of a
`search that's within the scope of at least the
`independent claims of the '011 and '394 patents,
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` A. I mean, it's part of the specification,
`and, you know, the purpose of the specification is
`to instruct somebody who may try to practice the
`claims and I think that these can be used for a
`person of ordinary skill in the art to try to
`practice those claims, sure.
` Q. But you don't have an opinion that
`Figure 6A and 6B depict an unclaimed embodiment or
`something outside the scope, correct?
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` Q. Can we start with the first result in
`Figure 6B of the '011 patent. My question is, why
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`in the word "TOON" is highlighted because the
`letters "TOO" are one alphanumeric translation of
`the unresolved key stroke entry 866; is that fair?
` A. I think you're saying, did I say that
`exactly.
` Q. No.
` A. You didn't read --
` Q. I was not reading from --
` A. Sounds like you were going to read --
` Q. With reference to 866, but let me just ask
`you a question. Is it fair to say that in
`Figure 6B of the '011 patent, the letters "TOO" in
`the word "TOON" are highlighted because TOO is one
`alphanumeric translation of the unresolved key
`stroke entry 866?
` A. I would say that, you know, it's part of
`the reason why it's highlighted. I mean, sure.
` Q. Right. And the letters "TOO" are letters
`that correspond to the numeric search query 866 in
`the examples shown with Figure 6A and 6B, correct?
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` A. So again, this is a teaching. I'm not
`trying to say anything about the claim language or
`anything else, but if you refer to the -- 6A,
`which shows the overloaded keypad, you can see
`that the system saw that an 8 was entered, you
`know, in some hypothetical system that does this,
`which is an overloaded key and has TUV on it, and,
`you know, I -- keep in mind that this isn't trying
`to show every part of a claim. It's not trying to
`show necessarily, you know -- when I look at this
`figure, I'm not trying to do any mapping to every
`limitation of the claim, like ordering or
`whatever, but what I can say is, that -- keeping
`that in mind, that, you know, T was on the
`overloaded 8 key, O was on the overloaded 6 key
`and O was on the overloaded 6 key of some, you
`know, stored information. And so the system had a
`way of determining, you know, which way to, you
`know, perform a mapping from the overloaded keys
`to, you know, prefix substrings and highlighting
`them.
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` Q. The letters "TOO" appear a second time in
`the search result TOON:Cartoon Network, correct?
` A. Yeah, sure.
` Q. Specifically the letters "TOO" appear not
`only in the word "TOON" but also in the word
`"Cartoon" in the search result "TOON:Cartoon
`Network" figure depicted in 6B, correct?
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` Q. But in Figure 6B of the '011 patent, the
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`may be in some system, and it doesn't have to be
`any particular system and I'm not talking about
`the accused system, it may be that, you know, the
`method -- you see in the preamble, method and then
`the second limitation, determining which, the
`method determining may do that in a certain way.
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`highlighting -- you know, and again this is just a
`teaching, there's a lot of different ways you can
`implement this, you know, that method determining
`which and then subsequently highlighting -- that
`method only highlights the instance in the first
`word, because all the characters were in the first
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`Figure 6B of the '011 patent, the second instance
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`according to the claims, in your opinion, correct?
` A. You know, my reading of that, if I look
`at, you know, the -- I'll say column 7 and my
`reading of, you know, the associated specification
`related to Figures 6 and 7, there is a method
`which determines which characters to map and
`ostensibly, I mean, you can tell by looking at
`this example, you can -- it's clear that, you
`know, the first word is, you know, addressed
`first, shall we say, and it found all the
`characters there and it highlighted them. Okay.
`And, you know, you could have a method that, you
`know, does something different, but this is the
`method that is explained here. And I think it's
`pretty clear.
` Q. Okay. And so referring again to Figure 6B
`of the '011 patent, you can infer from Figure 6B,
`that the letters "TOO" in "Cartoon" are not
`letters that caused the item for the search result
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`yeah, that's a yes. You asked me something else.
` Q. Why isn't the "TOO" in the word "Cartoon
`Network" -- strike that.
` Why isn't the "TOO" in the word "Cartoon"
`highlighted in the search result for "TOON:Cartoon
`Network" in Figure 6B of the '011 patent?
` A. I think that's the question you asked me
`previously. So I mean, I've already answered
`that. You said it was unresponsive. But I
`said -- let me just say, the method determining
`which characters are mapped did it that way.
` Q. So the highlighting is done according to
`the method that determined which characters are
`mapped to the numeric user input in the claim of
`the '011 patent. Is that your testimony?
` A. Well, it's the same method. Okay. So
`it's a method determining which and a method
`highlighting, and I think they're related. Okay.
`So I do think those are related.
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`highlighted, correct?
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`the determining which and the highlighting. Okay.
`I mean, if -- you know, the entire limitation I
`could read out and take time. I'm not going to do
`that. I'm going to say that this is a -- comes
`from a spec, which is a teaching. So given that
`it's a spec, and my understanding by law, the spec
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`specification is generally teaching and not a
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`instruction, given that, you know, the
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`unresolved keystrokes entered match the
`information associated with the displayed items."
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`those first three, whether or not the other ones
`were matched or not, I don't see -- it's not clear
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`for the word "Cartoon" in "TOON:Cartoon Network"?
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`know, highlighting -- I mean, these are long
`limitations. You'd still be -- you know, in such
`a system that -- let's just put it this way. If a
`system was determining which letters and,
`et cetera, in the second limitation and in the
`third limitation these were -- I'm trying to
`paraphrase very long limitations, I'm just going
`to say, suppose that the limitations were met with
`respect to the first three characters. If you
`highlighted the other ones, you know, I haven't
`thought about that, but, you know, it's kind of
`immaterial to me in terms of infringement. I
`don't think that affects infringement if you do
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`It's that the limitations are met with respect to
`the first three characters, but in addition, the
`"TOO" in "Cartoon" are letters that caused the
`item to be associated with the user input 866 and
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`scope of the claims, according to your opinion?
`view, you know, the "TOO" in "Cartoon" as a
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`prefix, but, again, I'm not talking about
`than that. You asked me about those being
`Figure 6B infringing. I'm just saying you could
`highlighted, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
`have a system -- you could have a method that, you
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`finds something in the middle of a word is --
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`doesn't change whether that first infringement is
`limitations are met with respect to the first
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`three characters, but in addition, the "TOO" in
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`highlight only the "TOO" in "TOON," and that would
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`"letters and numbers present in the information
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`with the strings of one or more unresolved
`keystrokes that are directly mapped to said
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` A. Well, I was correct and you were correct
`in reading -- you know, you read the limitation
`just from beginning to end. I read the
`limitation, as well as part of the preamble to
`explain, you know, how the word "caused" is used
`and what does the causing in caused, so to speak.
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`causing it.
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`caused the association of an item to a numeric
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`what we're talking about. But when I read the
`claim language, I see, you know, said method
`determining which letters and -- let's see. Yeah,
`I mean, the "which determining" clearly is what
`caused said items to be associated with the
`strings of one or more unresolved keystrokes. The
`method which -- I just want to point out for the
`record, I'm sure it's already all on the record,
`but in this deposition, that in limitation 2, the
`words "which" and "determining" are transposed.
`So the method determining which caused said items
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