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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`WACO DIVISION
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`ADVANCED SILICON TECHNOLOGIES
`LLC,
` Plaintiff
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`-vs-
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`NXP USA, INC.,
` Defendant
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`CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER
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`W-22-CV-00466-ADA
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`Before the Court are the Parties’ claim construction briefs: Defendant NXP USA, Inc.’s
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`Opening Claim Construction Brief (ECF No. 49), Plaintiff’s Responsive Claim Construction Brief
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`(ECF No. 49), Defendants’ Reply Claim Construction Brief (ECF No. 56), Plaintiffs’ Sur-Reply
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`(ECF No. 58), and the Joint Claim Construction Statement (ECF No. 60). On February 7, 2023,
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`the Court provided the parties with its Preliminary Claim Constructions, and on February 8, 2023,
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`the Court held a Markman hearing. The Court issues this Order to memorialize the Court’s final
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`claim construction rulings for the parties, and to inform the parties that the Court plans to issue a
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`more-detailed Order explaining its analysis in due course. The deadline to file any objections to
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`the undersigned’s claim construction rulings (pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 59 and
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`72) do not need to be filed until 14 days after that more fulsome Order is entered upon the docket.
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`SIGNED this 8th day of February, 2023.
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`__________________________________
`Derek T. Gilliland
`United States Magistrate Judge
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`Case 6:22-cv-00466-ADA-DTG Document 67 Filed 02/08/23 Page 2 of 3
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`Term
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`AST's Proposal
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`NXP's
`Proposal
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`Court’s Preliminary Construction
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`Preamble is not limiting
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`"A method for reducing
`power consumption for a
`video decoder
`comprising"
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`'435 Patent, Claim 26
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`Preamble is non-
`limiting
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`Preamble is
`limiting
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`"hardware,
`which may be
`one or more
`circuits"
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`Plaintiff’s
`Original
`Plain and ordinary
`Proposal:
`meaning
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`"hardware,
`which may be
`one or more
`circuits, that
`processes
`graphics data"
`"graphics
`pipeline
`"graphics pipelines
`operative such
`operative to process data in
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`Plain and ordinary that data for a
`a dedicated tile"
`meaning
`specific tile is
`'945 Patent,
`processed by one
`Claims 1, 21
`and only one
`pipeline”
`"a memory
`controller . . .
`operative to
`transfer pixel
`data to, from,
`and between (1)
`Plain and ordinary
`the first graphics
`meaning
`pipeline and the
`second graphics
`pipeline, and
`also (2) the two
`graphics
`pipelines and a
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`Plain and ordinary meaning
`
`
`Plain and ordinary meaning
`
`
`
`
`
`
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`Plain and ordinary meaning, which
`requires the memory controller to be
`operative to transfer pixel data
`between all three items—first
`pipeline, second pipeline, and
`memory.
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`
`
`
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`"graphics pipeline"
`'945 Patent,
`Claims 1, 4, 12, 21
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`"a memory controller . . .
`operative to transfer pixel
`data between each of a first
`pipeline and a second
`pipeline [the two graphics
`pipelines] and a memory
`shared among the at least
`two graphics pipelines"
`'945 Patent,
`Claims 1-4, 17-20
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`Case 6:22-cv-00466-ADA-DTG Document 67 Filed 02/08/23 Page 3 of 3
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`memory shared
`among the two
`graphics
`pipelines"
`
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`Plain and ordinary meaning, for
`example: a rectangular, but not
`square, array of pixels denoted by N
`number of row and M number of
`columns.
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` N
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` does not equal M.
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`"NxM number of pixels"
`'945 Patent, Claim 21
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`"rectangular
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`Plain and ordinary block of pixels
`meaning
`that is not
`square"
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