IPR2016-01869 Ex. 1004
`Broadsign International, LLC Petitioner
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`Mail Stop 8
`Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`REPORT ON THE
`FILING OR DETERMINATION OF AN
`ACTION REGARDING A PATENT OR
`TRADEMARK
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`In Compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 290 and/or 15 U.S.C. § 1116 you are hereby advised that a court action has been
`filed in the U.S. District Court
`for the District Of Minnesota
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`|:I Trademarks or
`MPatents.
`( D the patent action involves 35 U.S.C. § 292.):
`DOCKET NO.
`DATE FILED
`U.S. DISTRICT COURT
`16-2018 DWF/BRT
`6/20/2016
`for the District of Minnesota
`PLAINTIFF
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`DEFENDANT
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`T—Rex Property AB
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`Cedar Fair, L.P.
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`DATE INCLUDED
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`entitled case, the following patent(s)/ trademark(s) have been included:
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`HOLDER OF PATENT OR TRADEMARK
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`entitled case, the following decisioI1 has been rendered or judgenierit issued:
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`Complaint filed 6/20/2016 CLERK
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`Copy 1—Upon initiation of action, mail this copy to Director Copy 3—I,'p0n termination of action, mail this copy to Director
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`In re PATENT APPLICATION of
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`Hon. Commissioner of Patents
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`(A) NAME OFASSIGNEE Dahlgren, Hylin & Jonason Media AB
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`(B) RESIDENCE: (CITY 1; STATE on cournnv) Danderyd , Sweden
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`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application.
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`E] This communication is responsive to 04/07/99
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`XI The allowed claimlsi is/are 25-48
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`IX} Acknowledgement is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d).
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`EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT
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`An examiner's amendment to the record appears below. Should the changes and/or
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`Specification, page 1 line 1, before “Technical Field” inserted:
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`This application claims priority to the provisional U.S. patent application No. 60/017,403 entitled
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`Claim 36, renumbered “47" to “35".
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`detailed review of the applicant’s claimed limitations, and the amendment filed 4/7/99, certain key
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`selectively dynamically coordinating and controlling projectors, for a digital information system
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`receiving real time information, and updating an exposure list in real time. This feature taken
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`together with the other limitations of the claims, renders the claims allowable over the prior art.
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`Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the
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`Allowance."
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`be directed to David L. Lewis whose telephone number is (703) 306-3026.
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`(New) A method of dynamically coordinating and controlling
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`project/ors in a digital information system to display information in public places on at
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`information system including a computerized
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`control center having a plurality of communication interfaces, a plurality of
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`computerized devices situated in proximity to said public places and being connected
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`to said control center wherein each of said devices controls at least one projector, and
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`at least one subscribing information mediator having communications drive routine
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`means for selectively and transparently connecting to said control center, said method
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`receiving, by said control center, display information transmitted by said
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`mediators at any time, said display information including booking information,
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`specified by said at least one mediator, for reserving and controlling a time-period to
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`display said display information;
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`generating, organizing, and dynamically updating an exposure list in real time,
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`information, said exposure list also containing projector control instructions based on
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`said reservation information;
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`coordinating and controlling select ones of said projectors by said computer
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`devices, in response to said projector control instruction contained in said exposure
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`list, in order to display said display information on said display device in real time,
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`wherein said display information in said exposure list specifies a content of
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`display, a location of display, a timing of display, and a duration of display such that
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`independently selected, and said exposure list enables each of said select projectors to
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`(New) The method of Claim /}{,
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`administrator for updating said exposure list with elective information at any time.
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`(New) The method of Claim 6, wherein said coordinating and
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`controlling includes interrupting said display of information by said select projectors
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`when said display is hidden, obstructed, or otherwise visibly unavailable in said public
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`for controlling and feeding said display
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`information to said projectors being controlled by a station computer included in said
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`computerized devices, said projector computer having a corresponding memory buffer
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`for accommodating subsequently arriving display information while display
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`information of a current display is erased from said buffer memory.’
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`(New) The method ofClaim , further including aprojector computer
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`feeding display information to said projectors, said projector computer having a
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`information while display information of a current display is erased from said buffer
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`(New) The method of Claim , further including databases within
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`said station computer situated in one of said public places, said databases include
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`display information contained in said exposure list, said exposure list information
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`capable of being copied into databases of other selected station computers situated in
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`(New) The method of Claim/Kfurther including a plurality of
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`reserved instruction fields in said exposure list for updating display information with
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`said control instructions received from said information mediators via one of said
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