UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`META PLATFORMS, INC.,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`VOIP-PAL.COM, INC.,
`(Alleged) Patent Owner
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`U.S. PATENT NO. 10,880,721
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`Case IPR2022-01234
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`PETITION FOR INTER PARTES REVIEW
`UNDER 35 U.S.C. §312 AND 37 C.F.R. §42.104
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1
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`II. MANDATORY NOTICES ............................................................................. 1
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`A.
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`B.
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`C.
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`D.
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`Real Party-In-Interest ............................................................................ 1
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`Related Matters ...................................................................................... 2
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`Counsel and Service Information .......................................................... 4
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`37 C.F.R. §42.8(b)(4): Service Information .......................................... 4
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`III.
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`PAYMENT OF FEES UNDER 37 C.F.R. §42.103 ........................................ 4
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`IV. CERTIFICATION OF GROUNDS FOR STANDING .................................. 5
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`V. OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGE AND RELIEF REQUESTED .................... 5
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`A.
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`B.
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`Prior-Art References.............................................................................. 5
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`Relief Requested .................................................................................... 6
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`VI. NO DISCRETIONARY DENIAL .................................................................. 6
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`A. No Prior Petition by Petitioner .............................................................. 6
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`B.
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`The Presented Grounds Are Dissimilar to Previous Art and
`Arguments ............................................................................................. 7
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`C.
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`Efficiency, Fairness, and the Merits Support Institution ...................... 7
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`VII. THE ’721 PATENT ......................................................................................... 8
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`A.
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`B.
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`Technology Summary ........................................................................... 8
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`Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art .....................................................12
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`VIII. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ..........................................................................13
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`A. Agreed constructions ...........................................................................13
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`B.
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`“gateway” (Claims 1, 20, 38) ..............................................................14
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`“means for causing the wireless apparatus to establish
`communications with the destination node through the
`communications channel identified by the access code” (Claim
`20) ........................................................................................................15
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`D.
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`“means for communicating with the routing controller to obtain
`from the routing controller the access code” (Claim 34) ....................16
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`IX. OVERVIEW OF THE PRIOR ART .............................................................16
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`A.
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`B.
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`C.
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`Buckley ................................................................................................16
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`Bates ....................................................................................................19
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`Ejzak ....................................................................................................20
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`X.
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`SPECIFIC GROUNDS ..................................................................................22
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`A. Ground I: Claims 1, 2, 6, 9, 14-16. 20, 25, 34, 38-39, 43, 46,
`49-50, 135-136, and 140 Are Obvious Over Buckley. .......................22
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`Claim 1 ......................................................................................22
`1.
`Claim 2 ......................................................................................32
`2.
`Claim 6 ......................................................................................34
`3.
`Claim 9 ......................................................................................35
`4.
`Claim 14 ....................................................................................35
`5.
`Claim 15 ....................................................................................36
`6.
`Claim 16 ....................................................................................38
`7.
`Claim 20 ....................................................................................39
`8.
`Claim 25 ....................................................................................42
`9.
`10. Claim 34 ....................................................................................42
`11. Claim 38 ....................................................................................45
`12. Claim 39 ....................................................................................48
`13. Claim 43 ....................................................................................49
`14. Claim 46 ....................................................................................49
`15. Claim 49 ....................................................................................49
`16. Claim 50 ....................................................................................50
`17. Claim 135 ..................................................................................52
`18. Claim 136 ..................................................................................52
`19. Claim 140 ..................................................................................53
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`Ground II: Claims 50 and 140 Are Obvious Over Buckley in
`View of Ejzak. .....................................................................................54
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`1. Motivation to Combine .............................................................54
`2.
`Claim 50 ....................................................................................58
`3.
`Claim 140 ..................................................................................60
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`C.
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`Ground III: Claims 1, 2, 6, 9, 14-16. 20, 25, 34, 38-39, 43, 45-
`46, 49-50, 135-136, and 140 Are Obvious Over Buckley in
`View of Bates. .....................................................................................62
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`1. Motivation to Combine .............................................................62
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`Claim 1 ......................................................................................67
`3.
`Claim 2 ......................................................................................72
`4.
`Claim 6 ......................................................................................72
`5.
`Claim 9 ......................................................................................73
`6.
`Claim 14 ....................................................................................73
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`Claim 15 ....................................................................................73
`8.
`Claim 16 ....................................................................................74
`9.
`Claim 20 ....................................................................................75
`10. Claim 25 ....................................................................................76
`11. Claim 34 ....................................................................................76
`12. Claim 38 ....................................................................................77
`13. Claim 39 ....................................................................................78
`14. Claim 43 ....................................................................................78
`15. Claim 45 ....................................................................................78
`16. Claim 46 ....................................................................................79
`17. Claim 49 ....................................................................................79
`18. Claim 50 ....................................................................................80
`19. Claim 135 ..................................................................................81
`20. Claim 136 ..................................................................................81
`21. Claim 140 ..................................................................................81
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`D. Ground IV: Claims 50 and 140 Are Obvious Over Buckley in
`View of Bates and Further in View of Ejzak. .....................................82
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`1. Motivation to Combine .............................................................82
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`Claim 50 ....................................................................................82
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`Claim 140 ..................................................................................83
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`XI. SECONDARY CONSIDERATIONS ...........................................................84
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`XII. CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................84
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`TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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`Cases
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`Google v. Ecofactor,
`IPR2021-01578, Paper 9 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 18, 2022) ............................................. 8
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`Exhibit
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`LIST OF EXHIBITS
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`Description
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`1001
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`1002
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`1003
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`1004
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`1005
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`1006
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`1007
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`1008
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`1009
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`1010
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`1011
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`1012
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`1013
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`1014
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`1015
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`1016
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`1017
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`1018
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`1019
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,880,721 (’721 Patent)
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`File History of U.S. Patent No. 10,880,721(without NPL’s and
`foreign references)
`Declaration of Dr. Vijay Madisetti
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`Curriculum vitae of Dr. Vijay Madisetti
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,668,159 (“Buckley”)
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,995,565
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,954,654 (“Ejzak”)
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`U.S. Patent App. Pub. No. 2009/0047922
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,731,163 (“Bates”)
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`RFC 3261
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,245,609
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`Claim Construction Order (Dkt. No. 67) in Case No. 6:21-cv-00668-
`ADA (W.D. Tex.)
`Joint Claim Construction Statement (Dkt. No. 59) in Case No. 3:22-
`CV-03202 (N.D. Cal)
`U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2008/0167039
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`U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2002/0102973
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,542,815
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`Exhibit 2016 in Apple, Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., IPR 2016-01201
`(P.T.A.B. Feb. 10, 2017)
`Email with attachment from Counsel for Patent Owner Regarding
`Claim Construction, dated March 2, 2022
`“Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks IP, UMTS, EGPRS
`and ATM”, by Jeffery Bannister et al., Wiley, England (2004)
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`1020
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`1021
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`1022
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`1023
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`1024
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`1025
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`1026
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`Description
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`IETF RFC 3986, available at
`https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986
`IETF RFC 2543, available at
`https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2543
`U.S. Patent No. 7,283,507
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`Excerpts from Microsoft Computer Dictionary, 5th ed. (2002)
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`Excerpts from Wireless Encyclopedia, Althos Publishing (2007)
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`International Patent Publication No. WO 01/89145 A2
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`Excerpt from the File History of U.S. Patent No. 10,880,721 –
`“Roaming – Wikipedia” (submitted along with IDS on September
`24, 2013)
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`TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
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`Term
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`Abbreviation
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`AS
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`CS
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`DNS
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`ENUM
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`IP
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`MRN
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`IMS
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`PS
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`POSITA
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`PSAP
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`PSTN
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`SIP
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`URI
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`UE
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`VoIP
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`WLAN
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`Application Server
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`Circuit-Switched
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`Domain Name System
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`E.164 Number Mapping
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`Internet Protocol
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`IP Multimedia Routing Number
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`IP Multimedia Subsystem
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`Packet-Switched
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`Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art
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`Public Safety Answering Point
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`Public Switched Telephone Network
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`Session Initiation Protocol
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`Uniform Resource Indicators
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`User Equipment
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`Voice-over-IP
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`wireless Local Area Network
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION
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`Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta” or “Petitioner”) requests inter partes review of
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`claims 1, 2, 6, 9, 14-16. 20, 25, 34, 38-39, 43, 45-46, 49-50, 135-136, and 140
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`(“Challenged Claims”) of U.S. Patent No. 10,880,721 (EX1001, “the ’721 Patent”).
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`The Challenged Claims address a technique for routing phone calls. The
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`technique starts when a phone sends to a server a message that includes the phone’s
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`location and a destination node identifier. The server responds with a temporary,
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`local number selected from a pool. The temporary number is used to establish a call
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`between the phone and a destination node. The patent uses this technique to help
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`avoid long distance and roaming charges by routing the call over an IP network. But
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`the patented technique was well-known in the prior art. This includes art that
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`disclosed using the phone’s location to select a temporary, local number from a pool,
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`and using that number to route calls to a destination node. The art also disclosed
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`using temporary numbers in Voice-over-IP (“VoIP”) calls and calls made when
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`mobile phones were roaming away from their home networks. The Challenged
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`Claims should be canceled.
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`II. MANDATORY NOTICES
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`A. Real Party-In-Interest
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`Petitioner identifies the following real parties-in-interest: Meta Platforms, Inc.
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`(fka Facebook, Inc.) and WhatsApp LLC.
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`B. Related Matters
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`VoIP-Pal.com (“Patent Owner” or “VoIP-Pal”) is asserting the ’721 Patent
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`and related U.S. Patent 8,630,334 (“’234 Patent”) against Petitioner in Case No.
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`5:22-cv-03202 (N.D. Cal.) (the “Litigation”). Both patents are also asserted in other
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`pending litigations:
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` VoIP-Pal v. Google, No. 3:22-cv-03199 (N.D. Cal.)
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` VoIP-Pal v. Amazon, No. 6-21-cv-00668 (W.D. Tex.)
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` VoIP-Pal v. Verizon, No. 6-21-cv-00672 (W.D. Tex.)
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` VoIP-Pal v. T-Mobile, No. 6-21-cv-00674 (W.D. Tex.)
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` VoIP-Pal v. Samsung, No. 6-21-cv-01246 (W.D. Tex.)
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` VoIP-Pal v. Huawei, No. 6-21-cv-01247 (W.D. Tex.)
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` Verizon v. VoIP-Pal, No. 3-21-cv-05275 (N.D. Cal.)
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` Twitter v. VoIP-Pal, No. 3-21-cv-09773 (N.D. Cal.)
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`Both patents were also asserted in completed litigations:
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` VoIP-Pal v. Apple, No. 6-21-cv-00670 (W.D. Tex.)
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` Apple v. VoIP-Pal, No. 3:21-cv-05110 (N.D. Cal.)
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` VoIP-Pal v. AT&T, No. 6-21-cv-00671 (W.D. Tex.)
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` AT&T v. VoIP-Pal, No. 3-21-cv-05078 (N.D. Cal.)
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`Petitioner is simultaneously filing one other petition challenging different
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`’721 Patent claims and two other petitions challenging the ’234 Patent.
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`Certain claims of the ’234 Patent are subject to a petition for IPR in Google
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`LLC v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., No. IPR2022-01072 (P.T.A.B.); Google LLC v. VoIP-
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`Pal.com, Inc., No. IPR2022-01073 (P.T.A.B.); Amazon.com, Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com,
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`Inc., No. IPR2022-01178 (P.T.A.B.); Amazon.com, Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., No.
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`IPR2022-01179 (P.T.A.B.). Certain claims of the related ’721 Patent are subject to
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`a petition for IPR in Google LLC v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., No. IPR2022-01074
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`(P.T.A.B.); Google LLC v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., No. IPR2022-01075 (P.T.A.B.);
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`Amazon.com, Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., No. IPR2022-01180 (P.T.A.B.);
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`Amazon.com, Inc. v. VoIP-Pal.com, Inc., No. IPR2022-01181 (P.T.A.B.).
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`Petitioner, Patent Owner, Amazon, Google, Twitter, AT&T, and Verizon are
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`also involved in pending and closed litigations involving U.S. Patent No.
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`10,218,606.1
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`1 Meta, No. 6-20-cv-00267 (W.D. Tex.); Amazon, No. 6:20-cv-00272
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`(W.D.Tex.); Google, No. 6:20-cv-00269 (W.D.Tex.); Twitter, Nos. 3:21-cv-
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`02769 and 3:20-cv-02397 (N.D.Cal.); Apple, No. 5:20-cv-02460 (N.D.Cal.) and
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`No. 6:20-cv-00275 (W.D.Tex.); AT&T, No. 5:20-cv-02995 (N.D.Cal.) and No.
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`6:20-cv-00325 (W.D.Tex.); Verizon, No. 5:20-cv-03092 (N.D.Cal.) and No.
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`6:20-cv-00327 (W.D.Tex.).
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`To Petitioner’s knowledge, there are no other judicial or administrative
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`matters that would affect or be affected by a decision here.
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`C. Counsel and Service Information
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`Lead Counsel
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`Back-Up Counsel
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`W. Todd Baker (No. 45,265)
`todd.baker@kirkland.com
`Postal and Hand-Delivery Address:
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
`1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
`Washington, D.C. 20004
`Telephone: (202) 389-5000
`Facsimile: (202) 389-5200
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`Ellisen Shelton Turner (No. 54,503)
`ellisen.turner@kirkland.com
`Postal and Hand-Delivery Address:
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
`2049 Century Park East,
`Los Angeles, CA 90067
`Telephone: (310) 552-4200
`Facsimile: (310) 552-5900
`Joshua Popik Glucoft (No. 67,696)
`josh.glucoft@kirkland.com
`Postal and Hand-Delivery Address:
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
`2049 Century Park East,
`Los Angeles, CA 90067
`Telephone: (310) 552-4200
`Facsimile: (310) 552-5900
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`D.
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`37 C.F.R. §42.8(b)(4): Service Information
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`Meta concurrently submits a Power of Attorney, 37 C.F.R. §42.10(b), and
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`consents to electronic service to Meta-VoIP-IPR@kirkland.com.
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`III. PAYMENT OF FEES UNDER 37 C.F.R. §42.103
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`Review of 20 claims is requested. The undersigned authorizes the Office to
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`charge to Deposit Account No. 506092 the 37 C.F.R. §42.15(a)(1) fee and any
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`additional fees due for this Petition.
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`IV. CERTIFICATION OF GROUNDS FOR STANDING
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`Petitioner certifies under Rule 42.104(a) that the ’721 Patent is available for
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`IPR and that Petitioner is not barred or estopped from requesting IPR of the
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`Challenged Claims on the grounds herein. Petitioner certifies: (1) Petitioner does not
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`own the ’721 Patent; (2) Petitioner (or any real party-in-interest) has not filed a civil
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`action challenging the validity of any ’721 Patent claim; (3) Petitioner files this
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`Petition within one year of the date it was served with a complaint asserting
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`infringement of the ’721 Patent; (4) estoppel provisions of 35 U.S.C. §315(e)(1) do
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`not prohibit this IPR; and (5) this Petition is filed after the ’721 Patent was granted.
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`V. OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGE AND RELIEF REQUESTED
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`A.
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`1.
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`Prior-Art References
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,668,159 (“Buckley”) (EX1005), filed August 3,
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`2007 and granted February 23, 2010, is prior-art under at least pre-AIA 35 U.S.C.
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`§102(e).
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`2.
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,954,654 (“Ejzak”) (EX1007), filed July 31, 2001
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`and granted October 11, 2005, is prior-art under at least pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. §§102(a)
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`and 102(b).
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`3.
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,731,163 (“Bates”) (EX1009), filed May 9, 2007 and
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`granted May 20, 2014, is prior-art under at least pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. §102(e).
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`B. Relief Requested
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`Petitioner requests cancellation of the Challenged Claims as unpatentable
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`under 35 U.S.C. §103 as follows:
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`Ground
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`Claims
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`Proposed Statutory Rejection
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`I
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`II
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`III
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`IV
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`1, 2, 6, 9, 14-16. 20, 25, 34, 38-
`39, 43, 46, 49-50, and 135-136
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`Obvious under §103 over Buckley
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`50 and 140
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`Obvious under §103 over Buckley
`in view of Ejzak
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`1, 2, 6, 9, 14-16. 20, 25, 34, 38-
`39, 43, 45-46, 49-50, and 135-
`136
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`Obvious under §103 over Buckley
`in view of Bates
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`50 and 140
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`Obvious under §103 over Buckley
`in view Bates and further in view
`of Ejzak
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`VI. NO DISCRETIONARY DENIAL
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`A. No Prior Petition by Petitioner
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`Neither Petitioner nor any associated real-party-in-interest has previously
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`filed any IPR or PGR petitions against the ’721 Patent. This petition is being filed
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`before Patent Owner has filed its Preliminary Response to any other petition not filed
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`by Petitioner. Thus, this is not a “follow-on” petition and there is no basis for the
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`Board to exercise discretion under 35 U.S.C. §314(a) and 37 C.F.R. §42.108(a).
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`Also, there are no other IPR or PGR petitions challenging claims 2 or 9 of the ’721
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`Patent.
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`B.
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`The Presented Grounds Are Dissimilar to Previous Art and
`Arguments
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`All factors under 35 U.S.C. §325(d) favor institution. The grounds apply
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`Buckley, Ejzak, and Bates, which were not applied against the Challenged Claims
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`or discussed during the ’721 Patent’s prosecution. See generally EX1002. Nor are
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`these references relied upon in any other IPR or PGR proceeding against the
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`Challenged Claims.
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`C. Efficiency, Fairness, and the Merits Support Institution
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`Under the Interim Procedure for Discretionary Denials in AIA Post-Grant
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`Proceedings with Parallel District Court Litigation, the Board should not exercise its
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`§314(a) discretion based on the Litigation.
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`Factor 1: Institution will enable the Board to resolve validity and relieve the
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`Court of that issue. Petitioner will move the Court for a stay if IPR is instituted.
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`Factor 2: The Board will very likely issue its Final Written Decision before
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`trial in the Litigation where no trial date is scheduled.
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`Factor 3: All major milestones in the Litigation are yet to occur, and deadlines
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`for them have not been set, such that substantial work remains in the Litigation.
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`Factor 4: Petitioner stipulates in the Litigation that, if this IPR is instituted,
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`Petitioner will not pursue invalidity of the Challenged Claims on the grounds raised,
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`or that reasonably could have been raised, in this IPR.
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`Also, claims 2 and 9 challenged in this Petition are not asserted in the
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`Litigation and not challenged in any other IPR or PGR petition. The Board should
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`address those additional claims for the public’s benefit. Google v. Ecofactor,
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`IPR2021-01578, Paper 9 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 18, 2022).
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`Factor 5: In view of the other Fintiv factors—which heavily weigh against
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`the exercise of §314(a) discretion—the parties’ similarity is of limited weight.
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`Factor 6: This Petition’s merits are strong, which weighs against the Board
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`exercising §314(a) discretion under.
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`VII. THE ’721 PATENT
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`A. Technology Summary
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`Traditional Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTNs) route telephone
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`calls over circuit-switched telephone (aka “voice”) networks.2 See EX1007 1:19-22.
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`The ’721 Patent uses a sequence of messages sent over a “non-voice” network (such
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`2 Such networks are known as “circuit-switched” because they can involve a
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`dedicated circuit connection to transmit data (as electrical signals) between the
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`caller and destination node. In contrast, “packet-switched” networks (such as the
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`Internet) break data into smaller packets that are separately routed over network
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`connections to the recipient, which reassembles the packets when received. See
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`EX1003 ¶40.
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`as a packet-switched Internet Protocol (IP) network) to route PSTN voice calls over
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`an IP network (aka VoIP). EX1001 8:36-42, 9:9-16.
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`The ’721 Patent’s process begins when a mobile telephone (purple3 element
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`12 in Figure 1 below) sends an “access code request message” to an access server
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`(orange element 14) belonging to a telecommunications service provider (such as
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`AT&T). Id. 11:51-55. The access code request message includes the intended
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`callee’s identifier, such as a telephone number, and the caller’s “location identifier.”
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`Id. 11:66-12:2, 12:20-22. Based on that information in the access code request
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`message, the access server responds with an “access code” in an “access code reply
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`message.” Id. 12:63-67. The “access code” is a temporary number, such as a local
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`telephone number, used to route the call. Id. 13:4-7.
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`3 Color in the diagrams in this petition are annotations added by Petitioner for
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`illustration. All emphasis herein is added, unless indicated otherwise.
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`In Figure 1, the “access code” is the temporary telephone number in yellow-
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`highlighted element 20 (i.e., 1-604-345-1212). This temporary number is used to
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`route the call within the phone’s home network towards a gateway (green element
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`18). The gateway bridges the PSTN (element 29) to an IP Network (element 26), so
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`that calls originating or terminating on the PSTN can be routed over IP network to a
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`callee’s IP phone (blue element 36). Id. 13:49-56. As was well-known in the art, IP
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`networks such as the Internet do not apply long-distance or roaming charges, so
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`routing a call over such networks in this manner avoids such charges. EX1011 (prior
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`art) `1:7-19 (“By moving voice traffic to IP networks, companies may reduce or
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`eliminate certain toll charges associated with transporting calls over [PSTN]”).
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`The access server (element 14) may receive the access code request message
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`“over a non-voice network, such as an internet using WiFi or GPRS technology for
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`example” EX1001 11:58-59. The mobile telephone’s location identifier (which is
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`included in the access code request message) may be “an IP address of the mobile
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`telephone [] in a wireless IP network, such as the non-voice network…” Id. 12:26-
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`29. The server’s access code reply message, which includes the temporary number
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`(access code), may be returned over the non-voice, IP network (element 16). The
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`mobile telephone may then use the access code to initiate a call on the voice network
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`(element 15) that is then routed over the IP Network (element 26).
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`The purported invention is summarized in Figure 3, which depicts the process
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`from the telephone’s perspective as found, e.g., in claim 1:
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`The ’721 Patent contains symmetric claims from the access server’s perspective,
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`e.g., claim 51.
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`B.
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`Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art
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`A POSITA at the time of the ’721 Patent would have had a Bachelor’s degree
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`in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent field, and
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`approximately two years of experience with networks. Additional education might
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`compensate for less experience, and vice-versa. EX1003, ¶¶45-47.
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`VIII. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
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`A. Agreed constructions
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`This Petition applies the parties’ agreed constructions in the Litigation for the
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`following terms governed by 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 6:
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`Claim Term
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`Agreed Construction
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`“means for receiving, from a user of
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`Function: receiving, from a user of the
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`the wireless apparatus, a destination
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`mobile telephone, a destination node
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`node identifier”
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`(claim 20)
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`identifier
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`Structure: a dialing input, which is a key
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`pad, a voice recognition unit, or a
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`parameter memory with prestored
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`destination node identifiers
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`“means for transmitting an access
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`Function: transmitting an access code
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`code request message to an access
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`request message to an access server
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`server”
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`(claim 20)
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`Structure: a network interface
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`“means for receiving an access code
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`Function: receiving an access code reply
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`reply message from the access server
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`message from the access server in
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`in response to the access code request
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`response to [said/the] access code request
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`message”
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`(claim 20)
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`message
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`Structure: a network interface
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`“means for receiving from the
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`Function: receiving from the mobile
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`wireless [apparatus/device] [the/an]
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`telephone [said/an] access code request
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`access code request message”
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`message
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`(claims 34, 77)
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`Structure: a network interface
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`“means for transmitting the access
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`Function: transmitting [said/an/the]
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`code reply message including the
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`access code reply message including
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`access code to the wireless apparatus”
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`[said/the] access code to the [mobile
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`(claims 34, 77)
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`telephone/wireless apparatus]
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`Structure: a network interface
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`B.
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`“gateway” (Claims 1, 20, 38)
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`The plain and ordinary meaning of “gateway” in the ’721 Patent is a “device
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`that connects networks that use different communication protocols.” EX1023;
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`EX1024; EX1025 (cited during prosecution, see EX1002, 119-125), 1:14-15;
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`EX1001, Fig. 1, 23:21-32, 32:3-6; EX1003, ¶¶49-51. A W.D.Tex.4 court similarly
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`4 Petitioner was not a party in any case where the claims have been construed.
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`construed the term to mean “[a] device that connects networks and can adjust a
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`protocol of traffic moving between the connected networks.” EX1012, 3.
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`Patent Owner contended this term carries an unspecified “plain and ordinary
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`meaning,” without clarifying what that meaning is. EX1013, 8.
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`The asserted grounds satisfy all the above constructions, as explained below.
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`C.
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`to establish
`the wireless apparatus
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`the destination node
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`communications channel identified by the access code” (Claim 20)
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`The Board should construe this term as performing the function of “causing
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`the wireless apparatus to establish communications with the destination node
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`through the communications channel identified by the access code” and as
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`incorporating the structure of “a network interface, including switched line channels
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`in a public switched telephone network (PSTN).” EX1001, 9:25-27, 9:50-62, 13:38-
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`48, 23:38-52; EX1003 ¶55. Patent Owner argued the term should instead incorporate
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`the structure of “[m]obile telephone 12 having a microprocessor 52 programmed to
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`implement the algorithm illustrated in FIG. 3, which includes block 149 labeled
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`‘Initiate voice/video call using access code.’ The apparatus 12 includes an I/O port
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`(56) for communication. See FIG. 2.” EX1018. The asserted grounds satisfy both
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`constructions, as explained below.
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`“means for communicating with the routing controller to obtain
`from the routing controller the access code” (Claim 34)
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`The Board should construe this term as performing the function of
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`“communicating with said routing controller to obtain from said routing controller
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`said access code” and as incorporating the structure of “an input/output port that
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`transmits the access code request message, as received from the mobile telephone,
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`to the routing controller and receives, from the routing controller, the access code
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`reply message.” EX1001, 14:40-53, 14:58-64; EX1003 ¶57. Patent Owner argued
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`the term should instead incorporate the structure of “[a]n I/O port of an access server
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`and/or an I/O port of a routing controller.” EX1018. The asserted grounds satisfy
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`both constructions, as explained below.
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`Petitioner does not contend that any other terms require construction to
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`resolve this Petition.
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`IX. OVERVIEW OF THE PRIOR ART
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`A. Buckley
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`Buckley teaches routing PSTN calls over packet-switched networks. See
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`EX1005, Abstract. Buckley’s Figure 1 depicts example components that may be
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` mobile phones (i.e. User Equipment (UE) (element 102));
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` Circuit-Switched (CS) networks (e.g. PSTN (element 110)); and,
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` Packet-Switched (PS) networks (e.g. wireless Local Area Network
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`(WLAN) Broadband Access (element 108) and Internet protocol
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`Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Core Network (element 112)).
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`Id., 3:19-65.
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`Buckley’s Application Server (AS) (element 114-1 through 114-N) uses well-
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`known Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messaging (access code request and reply
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`messages) to assign a temporary IP Multimedia Routing Number (IMRN) (access
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`code) that allows CS-originated calls to be routed over IMS (IP) networks. Id. For
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`example, Figure 3A (excerpted below) depicts this process, which begins when the
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`calling mobile phone (UE, element 302) sends a SIP Invite message (element 312)
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`to the home AS (network node 308). Id.