Ex. 1001 - Declaration of Stephen B. WickerOmid Kia, Ph.D.
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`____________________________________________
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
`____________________________________________
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` Genius Sports Ltd.
` Sportradar AG
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`SportsCastr Inc. (d/b/a Panda Interactive)
`Patent Owner
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`U.S. Patent Nos. 10,425,697; 10,805,687; and 11,039,218
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`Case No. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG
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`DECLARATION OF DR. STEPHEN B. WICKEROMID KIA UNDER
`C.F.R. 1.68 IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONS FOR INTER PARTES REVIEW
`OF U.S. PATENT NOS. 10,425,697; 10,805,687; AND 11,039,218
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
`II.
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`Page
`Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1
`Qualifications and Background.................................................................... 23
`A.
`Education Background and Career History .......................................... 23
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`B.
`C.
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`Publications and Patents ........................................................................ 48
`Other Relevant Qualifications ................................................................. 5
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`DC. Prior Testimony...................................................................................... 69
`III. Understanding of Patent Law ....................................................................... 79
`IV. Description of the Technology .................................................................. 1114
`A.
`Internet Communications in General ................................................ 1114
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`B. Network Communication Models ..................................................... 1619
`C.
`Protocols for Real-time or Low-latency Data Transmission........... 1820
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`1.
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`Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) .................................... 1821
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`HTTP Polling .......................................................................... 1821
`2.
`3. WebSocket ............................................................................... 1921
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`4.
`5.
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`Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) .................... 2023
`Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) ............................... 2023
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`6. Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)........................ 2124
`7.
`Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP (“DASH” or
`“MPEG-DASH”) / HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) ................ 2225
`Internet Live Video Streaming .......................................................... 2326
`D.
`Overview of the Challenged Patents ........................................................ 2427
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`V.
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`A. Alleged Problem in the Art ............................................................... 2427
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`B. Alleged Invention of the Challenged Patents ................................... 2528
`VI. Level of Ordinary Skill in the Art ............................................................ 3033
`VII. Claim Construction .................................................................................... 3134
`A.
`The ’687, ’697, and ’218 Patent........................................................ 3134
`VIII. Summary of the Prior Art ......................................................................... 3538
`A. U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2015/0163379 (“Herzog”) ............................. 3538
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`B. U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2014/0229992 (“Ellis”) .................................. 4043
`C. U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2016/0036910 (“Spivey”) .............................. 4346
`IX. A POSA’s Motivation To Combine Prior Art References with a
`Reasonable Expectation of Success .......................................................... 4952
`A.
`Ellis in View of Spivey...................................................................... 4952
`1.
`Socket Server (Spivey) ............................................................ 4952
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`B.
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`Ellis in View of Spivey and Herzog ................................................. 5659
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`1. Webserver (Herzog) ................................................................ 5659
`2. Multiple live streams from one sporting event (Herzog)...... 5962
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`C. Herzog in View of Spivey ................................................................. 6265
`1.
`Socket server (Spivey) ............................................................. 6265
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`D. Herzog in View of Ellis ..................................................................... 6669
`1.
`Real-time information stream (Ellis) ..................................... 6669
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`Interactive content (Ellis) ....................................................... 6972
`2.
`Herzog in View of Spivey and Ellis ................................................. 7174
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`E.
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`1.
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`Socket Server (Spivey) ............................................................ 7174
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`2.
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`Real-time information stream (Ellis) ..................................... 7477
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`X.
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`2.
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`3.
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`3. Multiple live events (Ellis) ..................................................... 7780
`Grounds ........................................................................................................ 8487
`A.
`The ’218.............................................................................................. 8689
`1.
`’218 Ground 1A: Claims 12-30 Are Obvious Over Ellis
`in View of Spivey.................................................................... 8689
`’218 Ground 1B: Claims 1-11 Are Obvious Over Ellis in
`View of Spivey and Herzog ...............................................128131
`’218 Ground 2A: Claims 21-22 and 27-28 Are
`Anticipated by Herzog ........................................................144147
`’218 Ground 2B: Claims 1-9, 12-14, 16-20, 23-24, and
`29 Are Obvious Over Herzog in View of Spivey .............154157
`’218 Ground 2C: Claims 25-26 and 30 Are Obvious Over
`Herzog in View of Ellis ......................................................190193
`’218 Ground 2D: Claims 10-11 and 15 Are Obvious Over
`Herzog in View of Spivey and Ellis...................................194197
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`4.
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`5.
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`6.
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`B.
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`C.
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`2.
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`The ’687..........................................................................................198201
`1.
`’687 Ground 1A: Claims 1, 8-9, 19-25, 27-30 Are
`Obvious Over Ellis in View of Spivey ..............................198201
`’687 Ground 1B: Claims 2-7 Are Obvious Over Ellis in
`View of Spivey and Herzog ...............................................255258
`’687 Ground 2: Claims 1-9, 19-25, 27-30 Are Obvious
`Over Herzog in View of Spivey and Ellis .........................271274
`The ’697..........................................................................................331334
`1.
`’697 Ground 1A: Claims 1, 7-9, 19-25, 27-30 Are
`Obvious Over Ellis in View of Spivey ..............................331334
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`3.
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`2.
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`’697 Ground 1B: Claims 2-6 are Obvious over Ellis in
`View of Spivey and Herzog ...............................................407410
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`3.
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`’697 Ground 2: Claims 1-9, 19-25, 27-30 Are Obvious
`Over Herzog in View of Spivey and Ellis .........................420423
`Secondary Considerations of Non-Obviousness ................................488491
`XI.
`XII. Conclusion................................................................................................489492
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`TABLE OF EXHIBITS1
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`Description
`Exhibit No.
`Exhibit 1001 Declaration of Dr. Stephen WickerOmid Kia, Ph.D., (i.e., this
`declaration)
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`Exhibit 1002 Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Stephen WickerOmid Kia, Ph.D.
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`Exhibit 1003 U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687
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`Exhibit 1004 Claim Listing of U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687
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`Exhibit 1005 Certified File History of U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687
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`Exhibit 1006 U.S. Patent No. 10,425,697
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`Exhibit 1007 Claim Listing of U.S. Patent No. 10,425,697
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`Exhibit 1008 Certified File History of U.S. Patent No. 10,425,697
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`Exhibit 1009 U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218
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`Exhibit 1010 Claim Listing of U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218
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`Exhibit 1011 Certified File History of U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218
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`Exhibit 1012 U.S. Patent No. 11,871,088
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`Exhibit 1013 Director Vidal Memorandum re: Sotera Stipulations
`Exhibit 1014 SportsCastr’s Complaint for Patent Infringement against Genius
`Sports
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`Exhibit 1015 U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2015/0163379 (“Herzog”)
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`1
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`Unless otherwise specified, citations are to the original page, column, and line
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`numbers in exhibits. Brackets ([]) are used to refer to the sequential page numbers
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`added to exhibits pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §42.63(d)(2)(i).
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`Exhibit 1016 U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2014/0229992 (“Ellis”)
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`Exhibit 1017 U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2016/0036910 (“Spivey”)
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`Exhibit 1018 U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2015/0163379 (“Mitic”)
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`Exhibit 1019 SportsCastr’s Preliminary Infringement Contentions
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`Exhibit 1020 SportsCastr’s Response to Genius Sports’ First Set of Interrogatories
`Exhibit 1021 Genius Sports’Sportradar’s proposed Sotera Stipulation to
`SportsCastr
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`Exhibit 1022
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`James F. Kurose & Keith W. Ross, Application Layer, in Computer
`Networking A Top-Down Approach (Michael Hirsch et al. eds., 4th
`ed. 2012) (“Kurose”)
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`Exhibit 1023
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`John Dilley et al., Globally Distributed Content Delivery, IEEE
`Internet Computing (Sept.–Oct. 2002).
`Exhibit 1024 Mário Marques da Silva, Multimedia Communications and
`Networking (2012) (“Silva”)
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`Exhibit 1025
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`A Brief History of the Internet, ONLINE LIB. LEARNING CENTER. (Feb.
`9, 2024),
`https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml
`(“Online Library”)
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`Exhibit 1026
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`Hisayuuki Ohmata et al., Hybridcast: A new media experience by
`integration of broadcasting and broadband, 2013 ITU Kaleidoscope:
`Building Sustainable Communities, April 2013 (“Ohmata”)
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`Exhibit 1027
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`Henning Schulzrinne et al., RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-
`Time-Applications, DataTracker (January 1996),
`https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1889 (“Schulzrinne”)
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`Exhibit 1028
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`Brijesh Kumar, Making Sense of Video Streaming Protocols,
`LinkedIn. (Aug. 11, 2016), https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-
`sense-video-streaming-protocols-dr-brijesh-kumar/ (“Kumar”)
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`Exhibit 1029
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`Ian Fette & Alexey Melnikov, The WebSocket Protocol, RFC Editor.
`(Dec. 2016), https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455.html.
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`Exhibit 1030
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`Marcin Warczygłowa, Real-time Web Application with Websockets
`and Vert.X (Nov. 10, 2015), https://blog.allegro.tech/2015/11/real-
`time-web-application-with-websockets-and-vert-x.html.
`Exhibit 1031 Randall Stewart & Chris Metz, SCTP: new transport protocol for
`TCP/IP, 5 IEEE 64, (2001) (“Stewart”)
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`Exhibit 1032
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`Lydon Ong, John Yoakum &, An Introduction to the Stream Control
`Transmission Protocol (SCTP), Datatracker. (May. 2002),
`https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3286/ (“Ong”)
`Jan Newmarch, Introduction to Stream Control Transmission
`Protocol, LINUX J. (Sep. 1, 2007),
`https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9748 (“Newmarch”)
`Exhibit 1034 Kyung-Hoe Kim et al, A transmission control SCTP for real-time
`multimedia streaming, 54 Computer Networks 1418, (2010) (“Kim”)
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`Exhibit 1033
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`Exhibit 1035
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`High Scalability, How Facebook Live Streams to 800,000
`Simultaneous Viewers, ByteByteGo (Jun. 27, 2016),
`https://blog.bytebytego.com/?utm_source=hs&utm_medium=ann&ut
`m_campaign=top (“ByteGo”)
`Exhibit 1036 Hardeep Singh Parmar & Michael C. Thornburgh, Adobe’s Real
`Time Messaging Protocol, Veriskope. (Dec. 21, 2002) (“Parmer”)
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`Exhibit 1037
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`Ilya Grigorik, WebRTC, in High Performance Browser Networking,
`(2013) (“Grigorik”)
`Exhibit 1038 Sam Dutton, Get started with WebRTC, web.dev. (Jul. 23, 2012),
`https://web.dev/articles/webrtc-basics (“Dutton”)
`Exhibit 1039 Andy Salo, MPEG DASH: A Technical Deep Dive and Look at
`What’s Next, RGB Networks, (2012) (“Salo”)
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`Exhibit 1040
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`Jan Ozer, Upstream, Justin.tv, Livestream, and Bambuser: Streaming
`Unplugged, Streaming Media Magazine., Jun.–Jul. 2012 (“Ozer”)
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`Exhibit 1041
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`Christopher Mueller, MEPG-DASH vs. Apple HLS vs. Microsoft
`Smooth Streaming vs. Adobe HDS, BITMOVIN. (Mar. 29, 2015),
`https://bitmovin.com/mpeg-dash-vs-apple-hls-vs-microsoft-smooth-
`streaming-vs-adobe-hds/ (“Mueller”)
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`Exhibit 1042
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`Stefan Saroiu et al., An analysis of Internet Content Delivery
`Systems, ACM SIGOPS Operating System Review, Vol. 36 (Dec. 31,
`2002), https://doi.org/10.1145/844128.84415 (“Saroiu”)
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`Exhibit 1043
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`Charles Marion & Julien Jomier, Real-time Collaborative Scientific
`WebGL Visualization with Websocket, Ass’n Computing Machinery,
`August 4-5, 2012 (“Marion”)
`Exhibit 1044 Mark Sweney, First ads appear on YouTube Clips, The Guardian,
`Aug. 22, 2007 (“Sweney”)
`Exhibit 1045 Richard Sandomir, The Innovation That Grew and Grew, N.Y.
`Times, June 12, 2014 (“Sandomir”)
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`Exhibit 1046
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`Victoria Pimentel & Bradford G. Nickerson, Communicating and
`Displaying Real-Time Data with WebSocket, 16 IEEE (2012)
`(“Pimentel”)
`Exhibit 1047 Lucian Popa et al., HTTP as the narrow waist of the future internet,
`2010 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop, October 2013 (“Popa”)
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`Exhibit 1048
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`Declaration of Dr. Stephen Wicker, Ph.D., dated August 22, 2024
`(submitted in support of the IPR petitions in IPR2024-01305,
`IPR2024-01307, IPR2024-01308, IPR2024-01309, IPR2024-01310,
`and IPR2024-01311) (“Wicker Declaration”)
`Exhibit 1049 Comparison of the Declaration of Dr. Omid Kia, Ph.D. (i.e., this
`declaration) to the Wicker Declaration
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`I, Dr. Stephen B. WickerOmid Kia, declare as follows:
`I. INTRODUCTION
`1.
`My name is Stephen B. WickerOmid Kia, Ph.D. I am Professor
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`Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca,
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`New York. I have been retained on behalf of Genius Sports Ltd.Sportradar AG
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`(“Sportradar”) to provide my opinions regarding whether claims 1-9, 19-25, and 27-
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`30 of U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687 (“the ’687 patent”); claims 1-9, 19-25, 27-30 of
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,425,697 (“the ’697 patent”); and claims 1-30 of U.S. Patent No.
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`11,039,218 (“the ’218 patent”) would have been invalid to one of ordinary skill in
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`the art as of August 5, 2016 in the above-captioned Petitions for Inter Partes Review
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`(“IPR”) of the ’687, ’697, and ’218 patents.
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`2.
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`For time spent in connection with this matter, I will be compensated at
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`my standard billing rate of $900450 per hour. I am being separately reimbursed for
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`any out-of-pocket expenses. My compensation does not depend on the content of
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`my opinions or the outcome of this case.
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`3.
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`I understand that each of these six IPRs being filed by Sportradar raise
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`the same prior art and the same grounds as six IPRs previously filed by Genius Sports
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`Ltd. (“Genius”) against the ’687, ’697, and ’218 patents, namely: (i) for the ’697
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`patent, IPR2024-01308 (claims 1-9) and IPR2024-01309 (claims 19-25, 27-30), (ii)
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`for the ’687 patent, IPR2024-01305 (claims 1-9) and IPR2024-01307 (claims 19-25,
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`27-30), and (iii) for the ’218 patent, IPR2024-01310 (claims 1-15) and IPR2024-
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`01311 (claims 16-30) (collectively, the “Genius IPRs”). I also understand that, in
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`support of the Genius IPRs, Genius submitted the declaration of Dr. Stephen B.
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`Wicker (“Wicker Declaration,” attached hereto as Exhibit 1048). Based on my
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`review of the Wicker Declaration and all of the other materials identified below (as
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`well as my own knowledge, education, and experience), I agree with all of the
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`substantive opinions and testimony offered by Dr. Wicker in his declaration
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`regarding the ’687, ’697, and ’218 patents and the prior art grounds set forth in the
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`Genius IPRs and the above-captioned IPRs. As a result, my substantive opinions
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`and testimony set forth herein are the same as, and confirm, all of the substantive
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`opinions and testimony in the Wicker Declaration. See Ex. 1049.
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`4.
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`3. In forming the opinions expressed in this Declaration, I have also
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`relied on my education, training, research, knowledge, and my academic and
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`personal and professional experience. I also considered the viewpoint of a person
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`having ordinary skill in the art as of the time of alleged invention of the ’687, ’697,
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`and ’218 patents. My opinions are based, at least in part, on the following:
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` U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687 (“the ’687 Patent”) (Ex. 1003)
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` U.S. Patent No. 10,425,697 (“the ’697 patent”) (Ex. 1006)
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` U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218 (“the ’218 Patent”) (Ex. 1009)
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` U.S. Patent No. 10,805,687 Certified File History (Ex. 1005)
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` U.S. Patent No. 10,425,697 Certified File History (Ex. 1008)
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` U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218 Certified File History (Ex. 1011)
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` U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2015/0163379 (“Herzog”) (Ex. 1015)
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` U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2014/0229992 (“Ellis”) (Ex. 1016)
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` U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2016/0036910 (“Spivey”) (Ex. 1017)
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` The Wicker Declaration (Ex. 1048).
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`II. QUALIFICATIONS AND BACKGROUND
`A.
`Education Background and Career History
`5.
`4. My curriculum vitae isqualifications for forming the opinions set
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`forth in this report are summarized in this section and in my CV, attached hereto as
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`Exhibit 1002. ItMy CV provides an accurate identification of my background and
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`experience, as well as a list of my publications.
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`6.
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`5.
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`I earned my Bachelor of Science degree
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`in Electrical
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`EngineeringBachelor’s of Science in electrical engineering from Catholic University
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`America in 1987. In 1989, I completed my Master’s of Science in electrical
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`engineering from the University of Virginia in 1982. In 1983, I earned a Master of
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`Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and in 1987, I
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`earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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`My doctoral studies focused on the theory of sequences and error control codes for
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`digital communication systemsIllinois at Chicago. I then attended the University of
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`Maryland at College Park, where I earned my Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1997.
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`6. In 1982-1983, I worked for the Network Architecture Research Group of
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`Bell Laboratories, in Columbus, Ohio. While with Bell Laboratories, I worked on
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`digital switching systems for the messages that control the telephone network.
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`7. From August 1983 through September 1987, I was a System Engineer for
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`the Space and Communications Group of the Hughes Aircraft Company, in El
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`Segundo, California. During this time my primary focus was on the design and
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`development of communication payloads for commercial, military, and NASA
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`spacecraft. My work at Hughes included acting as the Principal System Engineer
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`for new business in advanced satellite systems.
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`8. From September 1987 through June 1996, I was a member of the faculty of
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`the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
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`9. From July 1, 1996, to February 29, 2024, I was a member of the faculty of
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`the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where I
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`taught and conducted research in wired and wireless information networks, digital
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`telephony, information theory, and security. Since that time, I have continued to
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`serve Cornell as an Emeritus faculty member, conducting research, advising students
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`and faculty, and giving occasional lectures. Over my time at Georgia Tech and
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`Cornell, I have supervised forty-four Ph.D. students.
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`10. I have consulted extensively with Motorola, MTel, Lockheed, Integrated
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`Device Technologies, Unisys, Texas Instruments, and other corporations to develop
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`advanced technologies for their products.
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`11. My current research focuses on wireless and wired information networks,
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`with an emphasis on network security and privacy. I have been particularly focused
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`on client-facing systems such as cellular technology and content distribution
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`networks. I am particularly interested in the security and privacy issues that arise in
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`streaming systems.
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`7.
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`A chief focus of my career has been designing and developing
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`computed imaging, video, and content processing systems for medical and other
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`uses, considering all aspects of the user, patient and system components, including
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`the requisite hardware, software, networking, and user-facing system elements. My
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`experience in this space spans industry and academia. For example, after I completed
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`my Ph.D., I took the position of Chief Technical Officer at IMACOM in 1999. In
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`this role, I managed a team of engineers in developing medical imaging software –
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`including both ultrasound and X-ray imaging applications. Among other things, my
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`role involved the development of video pipeline processing, real-time storage and
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`retrieval of live video, creating custom software applications and integrating custom
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`graphical user interfaces to meet customer demands. For example, I designed
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`algorithms where the user interface exploits the underlying information by
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`interacting with the user interface implemented in desktop, server and mobile
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`environments.
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`8.
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`With respect to the subject matter of the ’687, ’697, and ’218 patents
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`addressed in this Declaration, I have over 25 years of experience in design and
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`development of complex and network-based imaging systems for various purposes
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`including video, consumer, medical, and portable imaging systems amongst many
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`other modalities. My experience includes design and development of systems for
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`video and content processing and communication, among many other concepts,
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`including Video over IP, video surveillance, storage and processing of real-time live
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`video, multimedia compression and communication, and image and video indexing.
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`For example, after I completed my Ph.D., I worked as an Electronics Engineer at the
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`National Institute of Standard and Technology, where I worked on various projects
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`involving multimedia compression and communication and video indexing using
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`media processing tools to develop new and innovative techniques for archiving,
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`processing and transmitting video and other media. I also researched techniques for
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`serving large microscope images annotated with educational pointers for educational
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`purposes and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the MPEG standardization Group
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`working on the standards for MPEG-4 at the time. As another example, while
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`working as a principal consultant for Sigma Vision, I authored several proposals
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`directed to Video Over IP and video surveillance systems, including development of
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`Video Over IP systems for thin clients that were java enabled. Later on, as President
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`of Sigma Vision, I also performed several large scale consulting projects in the area
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`of Video Over IP.
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`9.
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`I am currently a senior systems engineer, serving as subject matter
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`expert at Coastal Communication Consultants, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as
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`“CCCi”). In this capacity, I serve as an expert in all of CCCi’s imaging and video
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`data initiatives along with high-technology research and development. I also serve
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`as an expert in all of CCCi’s activities pertaining to video processing, video
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`surveillance, image/signal processing, and other software development problems.
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`10.
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`Prior to joining CCCi, I served as the Chief Image Scientist at
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`Northstrat Inc. hereinafter referred to as “Northstrat”) and Senior Staff Scientist at
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`ITT Exelis, Space Sciences Division (hereinafter referred to as “ITT Exelis”) in a
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`similar capacity. In my role at ITT Exelis and similarly Northstrat, I led research
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`and development efforts with respect to all high technology development, including
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`in the areas of video processing, compression and standards.
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`11.
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`ITT Exelis and Northstrat expanded their business into product-based
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`services and as such utilized my innovative approach to develop high technology
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`products that carried a service-based revenue model. ITT Exelis (now part of Harris
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`Corporation) was a leader in Command, Control, Communications, Computers,
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`Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (“C4ISR”) related products and
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`systems and information and technical services, supplying military, government, and
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`commercial customers in the United States and globally. ITT Exelis was a pure-play
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`aerospace, defense, and information solutions company with strong positions in
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`enduring and emerging global markets, some 20,000 employees, and 2010 revenues
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`of about $6 billion.
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`12. Also at ITT Exelis, I served as one of the leading experts in image and
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`computer vision related activities. In particular I designed the camera processing for
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`a large field of view, multi-sensor camera with field-steerable mirrors to be used in
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`an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). I also served as the video processing subject
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`matter expert to address all aspects of video coding and decoding as it pertains to
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`image quality, channel model, display, format, indexing, error recovery and
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`transmission.
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`13.
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`Prior to joining ITT, I served as the Chief Scientist at Imaging Sciences
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`International, Inc. where my efforts catapulted the company into the leading Cone
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`Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) provider in the world. The application of
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`CBCT was targeted for the general dental market with first adopters including
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`Implantologists but later to other providers. I also served as the primary Intellectual
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`Property Manager for all patent related work for Imaging Sciences and its affiliates,
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`as well as a subject matter expert for all efforts involving digital imaging. Prior to
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`joining Imaging Sciences, in my roles at Sigma Vision, Portis, and IMACOM, I
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`researched and developed numerous medical and consumer technologies, involving
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`imaging and signal processing, video processing, Video On Demand, video
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`surveillance, and multimedia communication systems. These activities included
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`hardware and software design throughout the entire system development cycle,
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`including networking and user interface solutions.
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`14. Also, prior to that, and immediately after my graduation, I continued
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`work in media compression and processing at the Compression Group in the
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`Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institutes of Standards and
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`Technology. In this role, I continued my research and expanded on similar topics
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`across several media forms. In particular I served as the United States Government
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`ambassador to the MPEG standardization group. I also expanded on my thesis
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`research topic to exploit compressed-domain processing of media for images, video
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`and multimedia content. I worked with engineers who utilized the MPEG
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`standardization body’s source code for performance, quality and testing.
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`15.
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`In these capacities, I have worked on many aspects of video and content
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`systems, including algorithm development, software development, hardware
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`development, networking architecture, and system design. I have also implemented
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`video processing baselines for various products including performance criteria such
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`as video quality, processing and communication requirements.
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`B.
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`Publications and Patents
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`12. I have written and/or edited six books and roughly 250 journal and
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`conference papers, most of which focus on digital communication systems and
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`information networks. I am the author of Cellular Convergence and the Death of
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`Privacy (Oxford University Press, 2013). I am also the author of Error Control
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`Systems for Digital Communications and Storage (Prentice Hall, 1995), which has
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`been adopted as a text for courses in over sixty universities in fourteen countries. I
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`am the author of Reed-Solomon Codes and Their Applications, published in 1994 by
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`the IEEE Press; Turbo Coding, published in November 1998 by Kluwer Academic
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`Press; and Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding, published in
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`2002 by Kluwer Academic Press.
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`13. My journal publications include “Ad Blockers: Technology, Ethics, and a
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`Serious Difference of Opinion,” Communications of the ACM, October 2017 (with
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`K. Karlsson) and “Digital rights management: The cost to consumers,” in
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`Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.103, no.5, pp.726-33, May 2015 (with A. S. Kubesch).
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`14. I have also contributed chapters to several books, including “Privacy-
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`Aware Design for the Monitoring, Control, and Protection of Critical Infrastructure,”
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`in Homeland Security Threats, Countermeasures, and Privacy Issues (ed. Giorgio
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`Franceschetti), Artech House, 2010. A complete list of my publications is contained
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`in my curriculum vitae, a copy of which is provided as Ex.1002 to the Petition.
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`Following my Ph.D., I authored approximately 30 publications,
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`including journal and conference papers, many of which focus on multimedia
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`communication systems, video and image processing, and content networks and
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`services.
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`17.
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`Examples of my publications include:
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` H. Li, D. Doermann and O. Kia. Text Extraction, Enhancement and
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`OCR in Digital Videos. Book chapter in Springer Verlag, 1999.
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`O. Kia, J. Sauvola and D. Doermann. Network-diffused media scaling
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`for multimedia content services. In Interactive Distributed Multimedia
`Systems and Telecommunication Services, Eds. M. Diaz, P. Owezarski and
`P. Senac. In proceedings of the International Workshop on Interactive
`Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunications Services, pp. 149-
`162, 1999.
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`H. Li, O. Kia and D. Doermann. Text Extraction and Recognition in
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`Digital Video. In the proceedings of the International Workshop on
`Document Analysis Systems, pp 119-128, 1998.
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`H. Li, D. Doermann and O. Kia. Automatic Text Extraction and
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`Tracking in Digital Video. LAMP Technical Report, LAMP-TR-028, CAR-
`TR-900, CS-TR-3962, Dec. 1998
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`H. Li, O. Kia and D. Doermann. Text Enhancement in Digital Video.
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`In the proceedings of the SPIE — Document Recognition and Retrieval,
`volume 3651, pp 2-9, 1999.
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`O. Kia and J. Sauvolla. Active documents for mobile services. In the
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`proceedings of the IEEE workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp.
`227-232, 1998.
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`O. Kia and A. Schaff. Data Representation and Handling for Large
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`Image Browsing. In the proceedings of the SPIE – Multimedia Storage and
`Archiving Systems, pp. 37-46, 1998
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`J. Sauvola and O. Kia. Hyperdocument management for compression,
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`transmission and processing. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on
`Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 537-542, 1997
`18.
` A complete list of my publications is contained in my CV, a copy of
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`which is provided as Ex.1002 to the Petition.
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`19.
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`15. I am also a named inventor on the followingapproximately 30
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`patents., a complete list of which is contained in my CV
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`Wicker, S.B., “Private Overlay for Information Networks”, U.S. Patent
`No. 9,813,233, 7 November, 2017 - assigned to Cornell University.
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`Ober, C.K., O'Rourke, T.D., Spencer, M.G., Turner, J.N., Wicker, S.B.,
`“Flexible Substrate Sensor System For Environmental And Infrastructure
`Monitoring”, U.S. Patent No. 8,701,469, 22 April 2014 - assigned to Cornell
`University.
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`Fontaine, F. and Wicker, S.B., “Method and Apparatus for Turbo Decoding
`Block Codes”, U.S. Patent 7,243,288, 10 July 2007 - assigned to Motorola
`Inc.
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