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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`MICROSOFT CORPORATION and HP INC.
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`SYNKLOUD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Patent No. 10,015,254
`Issued: July 3, 2018
`Filed: December 21, 2015
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`Inventor: Sheng Tai Tsao
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`SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS DEVICE ACCESS TO
`EXTERNAL STORAGE
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`Inter Partes Review No. IPR2020-01032
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`PETITION
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
`INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1
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`COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS FOR INTER PARTES
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`II.
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`REVIEW .......................................................................................................... 2
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`Certification the 254 Patent May Be Contested by Petitioners ............. 2
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`Fee for Inter Partes Review (§ 42.15 (a)) .............................................. 2
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`C. Mandatory Notices (§ 42.8(b)) .............................................................. 2
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`III.
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`IDENTIFICATION OF CHALLENGED CLAIMS ....................................... 4
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`IV. RELEVANT INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CONTESTED
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`PATENT .......................................................................................................... 4
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`Effective Filing Date ............................................................................. 4
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`Level of Ordinary Skill ......................................................................... 4
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`Overview of 254 Patent ......................................................................... 5
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`Claim Construction................................................................................ 6
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`“cache storage . . . ” .................................................................... 7
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`“utilizing information . . .” .......................................................... 9
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`“folder or directory structure” ................................................... 11
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`“updating the storage space” ..................................................... 12
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`“web console” ........................................................................... 15
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`V. OVERVIEW OF THE PRIOR ART ............................................................. 16
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`A. McCown (EX1005) ............................................................................. 17
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`Dutta (EX1006) ................................................................................... 17
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`Coates (EX1007) ................................................................................. 18
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`VI. PRECISE REASONS FOR REQUESTED RELIEF .................................... 19
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`The Challenged Claims Are Unpatentable Over McCown in View of
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`Claim 9 is Unpatentable ............................................................ 19
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`Claim 10 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 46
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`Claim 11 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 48
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`Claim 12 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 49
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`Claim 13 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 50
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`Claim 15 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 57
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`The Challenged Claims Are Unpatentable Over McCown in View of
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`Dutta, in Further View of Coates ........................................................ 60
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`Claim 9 is Unpatentable ............................................................ 60
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`Claim 10 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 68
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`Claim 11 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 68
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`Claim 12 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 68
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`Claim 13 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 69
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`Claim 14 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 69
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`Claim 15 is Unpatentable .......................................................... 74
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`VII. CONCLUSION .............................................................................................. 75
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`INTRODUCTION
`U.S. Patent No. 10,015,254 (“the 254 Patent”) claims a system and method
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`for a wireless device to interact with a remote storage server for remote storage of
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`files. McCown, a PCT application published more than a year before the priority
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`date of the 254 Patent, describes exactly such a system and method. In particular,
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`McCown discloses a user site, which can be, for example, an enhanced cellular
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`telephone, that can manipulate a remote site and a storage site in order to cause a
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`file to be downloaded from the remote site and thereby stored in the storage site.
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`While the 254 Patent mentions a “cache” only once, its claims have several
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`limitations directed to “cache storage.” While a Skilled Artisan would understand
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`McCown’s Internet-based system to employ a cache storage, to remove any doubt
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`and to simplify the issues before the Board, this petition is based on the obvious
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`combination of McCown and Dutta, a prior art published patent application
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`directed to the capture and subsequent remote storage of web content using a web
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`cache.
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`Finally, several dependent claims are drawn to certain low-level
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`functionality for manipulating files stored remotely, such as moving, copying or
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`deleting. A prior art patent to Coates discloses exactly that functionality in great
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`detail. As demonstrated below and in the exhibits filed herewith, the combination
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`of these prior art references renders claims 9-15 of the 254 Patent unpatentable for
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`obviousness.
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`II. COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS FOR INTER PARTES
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`A. Certification the 254 Patent May Be Contested by Petitioners
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`Petitioners certify that the 254 Patent for which review is sought is available
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`for inter partes review and Petitioners are not barred or estopped from requesting
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`inter partes review of the 254 Patent (EX1001) on the grounds identified in this
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`Petition. 37 C.F.R. § 42.104 (a). Petitioners also certify this petition for inter
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`partes review is not being filed more than one year from the date of service of a
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`complaint on Petitioners alleging infringement of a patent. Petitioners also certify
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`that they have not filed a civil action challenging the validity of a claim of the 254
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`Fee for Inter Partes Review (§ 42.15 (a))
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`The Director is authorized to charge the fee specified by 37 CFR § 42.15 (a)
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`to Deposit Account No. 50-1597.
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`C. Mandatory Notices (§ 42.8(b))
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`The real parties-in-interest of this petition are Microsoft Corporation
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`(“Microsoft”), located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, and HP
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`Inc. (“HP”), located at 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
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`Lead counsel and backup lead counsel are as follows:
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`Lead Counsel
`Joseph A. Micallef
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`Backup Lead Counsel
`Scott M. Border
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`Service on Petitioners may be made by email (iprnotices@sidley.com), mail
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`or hand delivery to: Sidley Austin LLP, 1501 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
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`20005. The fax number for lead and backup counsel is (202) 736-8711.
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`The 254 Patent is or has been the subject to, or relates to, the following
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`• SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. HP, Inc., 1-19-cv-01360 (D. Del.)
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`• SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. BLU Products, Inc., 1-19-cv-00553
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`• SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Dropbox Inc., 6-19-cv-00526 (W.D.
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`• SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe Inc., 6-19-cv-00527 (W.D.
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`IDENTIFICATION OF CHALLENGED CLAIMS
`Claims 9-15 of the 254 Patent are unpatentable over the prior art as follows:
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`i. Claims 9-13 and 15 are Obvious under §103 Based on McCown in
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`ii. Claims 9-15 are Obvious under §103 Based on McCown in View of
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`IV. RELEVANT INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CONTESTED
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`Effective Filing Date
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`The 254 Patent claims a priority date of December 4, 2003. EX1001, Face.
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`Petitioners assume that date in its analysis.
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`Level of Ordinary Skill
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`A person of ordinary skill in the art in the field of the 254 Patent in the 2003
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`time frame (“a Skilled Artisan”) would have been someone with a bachelor’s
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`degree in electrical, computer engineering, computer science, or related field with
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`two years of experience in a relevant technical field, such as remote storage
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`systems, with related experience in wireless technologies and wireless devices. As
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`evidenced by the prior art cited below, such a person would have been
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`knowledgeable about memory structures in both mobile and computer
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`technologies, techniques for remotely accessing and manipulating databases and
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`computer files, and communications over computer networks such as the Internet.
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`EX1003,¶47.
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`C. Overview of 254 Patent
`The 254 Patent is entitled “System and Method for Wireless Device Access
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`to External Storage,” EX1001, Face, and describes a device interacting with a
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`remote storage server for remote storage of data. Id., Abstract. The primary
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`focuses of the 254 Patent are the transfer of data objects from a remote site to an
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`allocated storage space on a remote server under control of a wireless device, and
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`the retrieval of data objects from the storage space to the wireless device. Id.,
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`4:59-5:43.
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`In the system described in the 254 Patent, a user can employ a web browser
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`on a user device to setup folder/directory structures in the file system of his or her
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`assigned storage space. Id., 4:33-38. The user can also use the web browser to
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`perform data management operations to delete, copy, move and rename data
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`objects in the file system. Id., 4:38-41. Upon receiving the data management
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`request from the user device, the storage server’s software modules perform the
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`requested operation on the assigned file system of the assigned external storage
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`volume of the server. Id., 4:54-58. The 254 patent describes the steps required to
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`complete the process to download data from a remote web server into allocated
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`storage volume and depicts the steps in Figure 3 (below).
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`Id., Fig. 3.
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`Claims in an inter partes review proceeding are construed according to their
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`ordinary and customary meaning in light of the specification and file history of the
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`patent in which those claims appear.
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`“cache storage . . . ”
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`The ordinary meaning in the context of the 254 Patent of “cache storage for
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`caching data received from the Internet” is storage for data received from the
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`Internet that is more readily accessible by the user or user application than the
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`original Internet storage location. Similarly, “cache storage” is storage that is
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`more readily accessible by the user or user application than the original Internet
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`storage location. EX1003,¶61.
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`The 254 Patent uses the word “cache,” or conjugations thereof, only once in
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`the specification, in its description of Figure 3. EX1001, 5:10-19. Thus, the 254
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`Patent discloses that the user accesses a web page via a web browser “to obtain
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`information for the downloading,” EX1001, 5:10-12, and explains that
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`“downloading information” can be “IP address of the remote web site and the data
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`name for the downloading.” EX1001, 5:13-17. The downloading information
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`“becomes available in the cached web-pages on the wireless device (1) after the
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`web-browser (8) accessing the web site (15).” EX1001, 5:17-19; see EX1001, Fig.
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`3; EX1003,¶62; see also EX1003,¶¶63-64.
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`Dr. Houh explains that a Skilled Artisan would understand this description
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`indicates that the disclosed wireless device accesses the remote server site via a
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`web browser to obtain information for the data to be downloaded. The wireless
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`device then stores this download information into a cache in the form of a web
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`page, and later retrieves it from the cache and sends it to the storage server, in
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`order to indicate what information should be downloaded or stored. He also
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`explains that a Skilled Artisan would understand from this disclosure, particularly
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`its use of the word “cache,” that the download information is stored on the wireless
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`device in some convenient memory location of that device, so that it can be more
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`readily accessed, without having to make another request to the remote server site
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`for the information, when the user makes a selection of what information should be
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`downloaded and stored. See, e.g., EX1010; EX1003,¶65.
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`That reading is consistent with the understanding of the word cache in this
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`technological field. For example, when used as a noun in this technical field the
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`word “cache” is generally understood to mean “[a] special memory subsystem in
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`which frequently used data values are duplicated for quick access.” EX1030, 72.
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`The word “cache” is also used as a verb to mean storing data close to the user or
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`user application so that it can be more readily and speedily accessed than the
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`original storage location. EX1008, 114; EX1003,¶66.
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`The claims of the 254 Patent do not use the word “cache” as a noun and do
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`not recite any specific type of cache memory or process of caching. Instead, the
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`claims recite “cache storage for caching data received from the Internet” and “file
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`cached” (i.e., they use the word “cache” as an adjective modifying the noun
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`“storage” and “file” and as a verb modifying the terms “data received from the
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`Internet”). Such a claim term should be interpreted consistent with its grammatical
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`usage, i.e., to mean a type of “storage” modified by the adjective “cache.”
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`EX1003,¶67.
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`Accordingly, a Skilled Artisan would conclude that the meaning of “cache
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`storage [for caching data received from the Internet]” in the context of the 254
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`Patent is storage [for data received from the Internet] that is more readily
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`accessible by the user or user application than the original Internet storage location.
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`EX1003,¶68.
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`“utilizing information . . .”
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`The ordinary meaning in the context of the 254 Patent of “utilizing
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`information for the file cached in [the/a] cache storage in the [first] wireless
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`device” is broad enough to cover using information stored in the cache storage of
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`the [first] wireless device to download a file from a remote server. EX1003,¶69.
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`In context, this claim language relates to a storage operation that causes a
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`file from a remote server to be stored into an assigned storage space:
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`the storing data comprising to download a file from a second server
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`EX1001, 6:20-24 (emphasis added). EX1003,¶70. Dr. Houh explains, however,
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`that the phrase is ambiguous as to what information is “stored in [the/a] cache
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`storage in the [first] wireless device,” i.e., the “information” or the “file”?
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`EX1003,¶71.
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`The “cache storage” is claimed as part of the wireless device. Id., 5:64-66.
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`The specification of the 254 Patent explains that the file being downloaded is never
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`sent to the wireless device, but is instead transferred directly from the remote site
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`to the assigned storage location. Id., 5:23-28. Indeed, this aspect of the disclosed
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`system appears to be what the inventors viewed as the novel aspect of their
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`invention. EX1009, 64, 110, 137, 177, 215, 245. Moreover, in the disclosed
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`system, it is the download information that gets stored in the cache of the wireless
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`device. EX1001, 5:16-19; EX1003,¶72. Dr. Houh explains that “a cache storage
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`in the first wireless device” is a cache storage in the wireless device that is
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`correlated with the first storage space. EX1003,¶73.
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`Accordingly, when read in the context of the 254 Patent specification, the
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`ordinary meaning of “utilizing information for the file cached in [the/a] cache
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`storage in the [first] wireless device” is broad enough to cover using information
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`stored in the cache storage of the [first] wireless device to download a file from a
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`remote server. EX1003,¶74.
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`“folder or directory structure”
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`The ordinary meaning of “folder or directory structure” is an arrangement of
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`folders and subfolders (or directories and subdirectories) for holding files.
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`EX1003,¶75.
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`The 254 Patent explains that “the user on the web-browser (8) is facilitated
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`to perform creating structured layered file directories or folders.” EX1001, 3:10-
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`12. EX1003,¶76. A “folder” is “a means of organizing programs and documents on
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`a disk and can hold both files and additional folders.” EX1030, 202-203;
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`EX1003,¶77. A “directory” is “a catalog for filenames and other directories stored
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`on a disk.” EX1030, 148-149; EX1003,¶78. “Structure” is defined as “the
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`arrangement or organization of parts in a system.” See, e.g., EX1023; EX1003,¶
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`combined, a “folder or directory structure” is a structure of folders or directories.
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`That correlates to the description in the 254 Patent at EX1001, 3:10-12.
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`EX1003,¶80.
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`Accordingly, in the context of the 254 Patent, the ordinary meaning of a
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`“folder or directory structure” is an arrangement of folders and subfolders or
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`(directories and subdirectories) for holding files. EX1003,¶81.
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`“updating the storage space”
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`The ordinary meaning of “program instructions for the server updating the
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`first one of the storage spaces according to a requested operation received from
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`the first wireless device upon a user thereof, through the displayed information of
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`the first one of the storage spaces performing the operation for remotely accessing
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`the first one of the storage spaces” is program instructions for the server to update
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`the first one of the storage spaces according to a requested operation received from
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`the first wireless device by a user thereof in response to the user performing the
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`operation for remotely accessing the first one of the storage spaces by
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`manipulating the displayed information of the first one of the storage spaces.
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`The 254 Patent discloses a user employing data and storage volume
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`management operations through the use of a web browser on a wireless device.
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`EX1001, 4:34-41. These data management operations include operations to
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`“delete, copy, move, or rename…files or folders on that file system.” EX1001,
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`4:38-41. The 254 Patent details that the server system must communicate with the
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`wireless device of the web browser to present the external storage to a user.
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`EX1001, 4:44-47; EX1003,¶88.
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`In Dr. Houh’s analysis, the phrase “program instructions for the server
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`updating [to update] the first one of the storage spaces according to a requested
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`operation received from the first wireless device” would be consistent with the 254
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`Patent’s disclosure that the server system performs the requested data management
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`operation “upon receiving each data management operation” from the wireless
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`device. EX1001, 7:10-12, 4:54-58. Thus, the server system must necessarily
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`receive the data management operations from the wireless device in order to
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`“update the first one of the storage spaces according to a requested operation.”
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`EX1003,¶89.
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`Similarly, the update process is performed “according to a requested
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`operation from the first wireless device upon by a user thereof.” That construction
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`is consistent with the 254 Patent’s disclosure that “the user…of the wireless device
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`can choose and submit desired data management operation for the wireless device
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`sending the operation information to the…server system.” EX1001, 4:47-52. Thus,
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`the “requested operation received from the wireless device,” EX1001, 7:11-13, is
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`submitted “from the first wireless device by a user thereof.” EX1003,¶90.
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`The 254 Patent discloses that the user can “choose and submit desired data
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`management operation[s].” EX1001, 4:47-49. A Skilled Artisan would understand
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`that this process would require the manipulation of the “displayed information” by
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`the user of the wireless device, i.e. clicking, dragging, pressing a key on a
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`keyboard in order to make a selection. E.g., EX1035, 16:25-47. Thus, the update
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`process must be requested “by a user thereof…performing the operation for
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`remotely accessing the first one of the storage spaces by manipulating the
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`displayed information of the first one of the storage spaces.” EX1003,¶91.
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`Accordingly, when read in the context of the 254 Patent specification, the
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`ordinary meaning of “program instructions for the server updating the first one of
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`the storage spaces according to a requested operation received from the first
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`wireless device upon a user thereof, through the displayed information of the first
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`one of the storage spaces performing the operation for remotely accessing the first
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`one of the storage spaces” is program instructions for the server to update the first
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`one of the storage spaces according to a requested operation received from the first
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`wireless device by a user thereof in response to the performing the operation for
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`remotely accessing the first one of the storage spaces by manipulating the
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`displayed information of the first one of the storage spaces. EX1003, ¶92.
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`“web console”
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`The ordinary meaning of “web console” is a control unit through which a
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`user communicates with the computer to access interlinked documents in a
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`hypertext system, such as the World Wide Web. EX1003,¶93.
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`The 254 Patent does not explicitly define a “web console” in the
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`specification, but notes that it exists on a console host. EX1001, 4:10-13. The 254
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`Patent notes that “the storage system (10)… can be partitioned into multiple
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`volumes (11), for example, by administration staff through a web-console (13) of a
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`console host.” EX1001, 3:34-36. The 254 Patent indicates, in Figure 2, that the
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`term. EX1030, 114, 505 (“console” means “[a] control unit, such as a terminal,
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`through which a user communicates with a computer”) (“web” means “a set of
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`interlinked documents in a hypertext system. See also World Wide Web.”). In this
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`claim, “web” modifies “console.” A browser on a device is consistent with this
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`terminology. EX1003,¶94.
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`Thus, when read in the context of the 254 patent specification, a “web
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`console” is a control unit through which a user communicates with the computer to
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`access interlinked documents in a hypertext system, such as the World Wide Web.
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`A. McCown (EX1005)
`International Publication No. WO 01/67233 to McCown was published on
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`September 13, 2001, from a PCT Application filed on March 3, 2000. EX1005,
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`Face. McCown is prior art to the 254 Patent under at least §§102(a), (b) and (e).
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`McCown describes a system in which “[s]elected files are downloaded
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`across a network from a remote site into a client’s storage space account
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`established within a storage site.” EX1005, Face. McCown explains that as part of
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`the remote storage process, a client, operating from a user site (e.g., a wireless
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`device) on a network, selects files for downloading through use of an input device.
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`EX1005, 11:4-11. The user site software generates a data request from the user’s
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`selections which is “sent across the Internet” to the storage site’s software
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`application. EX1005, 11:20-22. The data request is received by the storage site’s
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`software application which generates a download request based on user selections.
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`EX1005, 12:24-25. The download request is provided to the storage site’s web
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`server which sends it to the remote site’s server. EX1005, 12:25-27. The remote
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`site’s server receives the download request and responds by downloading the files
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`to the storage site and storing them into the client’s storage space account.
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`EX1005, 12:27-13:2.
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`B. Dutta (EX1006)
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`U.S. Publication No. 2002/0078102 to Dutta (“Dutta”) was filed on
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`December 18, 2000 and was published on June 20, 2002. EX1006, Face. Dutta is
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`prior art to the 254 Patent under at least §§102(a), (b) and (e).
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`Dutta primarily describes the capture and subsequent storage of web content.
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`EX1006, Abstract. The client receives a file, generally in a Web page, in response
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`to a request by the user to browse the web page. EX1006, ¶[0010]. The captured
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`data of the displayed web page and user parameters are sent to the server from the
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`client. EX1006, ¶[0010]. The server receives the data and automatically stores the
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`captured data received from the client at the server. EX1006, ¶¶[0010]-[0011].
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`The client maintains local storage for use by the browser application and
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`other applications. EX1006, ¶[0029]. The browser may store bookmarked files,
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`browser cache, and various other types of files. EX1006, ¶[0029].
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`Coates (EX1007)
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`US Patent No. 7,266,555 to Coates was filed on December 8, 2000 and
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`published on September 4, 2007. EX1007, Face. Coates is prior art to the 254
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`Patent under at least §102(e).
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`Coates is directed “toward the field of remote storage, and more particularly
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`toward accessing remote storage through the use of a local device.” EX1007,
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`Face, 1:21-24. Coates discloses a storage port that interfaces a client computer,
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`such as a web or application server, to a network storage system (seen below).
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`EX1007, 3:7-8. Users only gain access to their media objects within the network
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`storage system, using a highly secured “shared secret” authentication technology.
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`EX1007, 4:65-67. The network storage system stores files at one or more storage
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`centers, remote from the client site. EX1007, 3:8-10. To gain access to content
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`stored at the remote storage center, the client computer mounts the storage port as a
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`storage device for the client computer. EX1007, 3:10-13. The client computer
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`issues local file system requests to conduct network storage system operations.
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`EX1007, 3:13-14. In response, the storage port translates local file system requests
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`to network storage system requests. EX1007, 3:14-16.
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`VI. PRECISE REASONS FOR REQUESTED RELIEF
`Petitioners demonstrate below that the challenged claims are obvious in
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`view of McCown in view of Dutta for claims 9-13 and 15, and McCown in view of
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`Dutta in further view of Coates for claims 9-15. In order to improve the clarity of
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`the analysis, the obviousness grounds set out below (including Ground #2)
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`incorporate and build upon the basic comparison of the challenged claims to
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`McCown or McCown in view of Dutta.
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`The Challenged Claims Are Unpatentable Over McCown in
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`Claim 9 is Unpatentable
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`Preamble
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`The preamble of claim 9 recites “[a] server for delivering storage service
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`comprising…”
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`McCown discloses network-based storage spaces having client accounts and
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`methods for downloading client-selected files from remote sites into client
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`accounts. EX1005, 1:3-5. A web server operates in the storage space to provide
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`web pages, directories, and other information to aid the client (“a server for
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`delivering storage space”). EX1005, 9:9-11. The storage site’s web server is also
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`capable of communicating with, and downloading files to and from other internet
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`sites. EX1005, 9:11-13; EX1003,¶284.
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`Therefore, McCown satisfies the claim element. EX1003,¶285.
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`Plurality of Storage Spaces and Devices
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`Claim 9 further recites “[a] server for delivering storage space
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`comprising…a plurality of storage spaces residing among a plurality of storage
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`devices.”
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`McCown discloses that storage space “accounts” (i.e., plural) (“plurality of
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`storage spaces”) are implemented (“residing among”) on a storage medium.
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`EX1005, 8:17-18. McCown further discloses that the storage medium “usually
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`comprises magnetic hard drives but may also include other types such as
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`“magnetic tape, optical tape, optical disks, and solid state memory devices.”
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`EX1005, 8:20-21. McCown therefore discloses embodiments in which multiple
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`storage devices (“a plurality of storage devices”) are employed (e.g., “usually
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`comprises magnetic hard drives”), and therefore discloses a “plurality of storage
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`spaces residing among a plurality of storage devices.” EX1005, 8:19-20 (emphasis
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`added); EX1003,¶287.
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`McCown satisfies the claim element. EX1003,¶288.
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`Computer-Readable Storage Device
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`Claim 9 further recites “[a] server for delivering storage service
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`comprising…a computer-readable storage device comprising program instructions
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`that, when executed by the server, configure the server to control delivering the
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`storage service.”
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`McCown discloses a “storage site software application 150 and a user site
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`software application that may be provided to the storage site 140 and the user site
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`130 respectively as computer programs recorded on information storage
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`media.” EX1005, 9:23-26 (emphasis added). McCown gives examples of
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`“information storage media” as “magnetic disk, magnetic tape, optical disk, non-
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`volatile memory, or other similar information storage media.” EX1005, 9:28-30;
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`EX1003,¶290.
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`A Skilled Artisan would understand “computer programs recorded on
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`information storage media” at the user site and storage site to encompass “one
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`computer-readable storage device” at the user site and storage site, respectively.
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`EX1030, 450 (defining “storage media” as “[t]he various types of physical material
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`on which data bits are written and stored, such as floppy disks, hard disks, tape,
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`and optical disks”); EX1009, 8:4-6 (“a computer readable storage medium which
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`can be any memory device, compact disk, or floppy disk”); EX1003,¶291.
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`Therefore, McCown satisfies the claim element. EX1003,¶292.
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`Program Instructions
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`McCown discloses a preferred embodiment in which “a pair of software
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`application packages