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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`FITBIT, INC.,
`Petitioner
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`PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLC
`Patent Owner
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`Patent No. 7,088,233
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`DECLARATION OF DR. JOSEPH PARADISO
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`B.
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`VI.
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`I.
`II.
`III.
`IV.
`V.
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
`INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... 1
`QUALIFICATIONS ...................................................................................... 1
`SUMMARY OF OPINIONS AND MATERIALS CONSIDERED ............ 6
`LEVEL OF ORDINARY SKILL IN THE ART ......................................... 11
`TECHNOLOGICAL BACKGROUND ...................................................... 11
`A.
`Electronic sensing and computer networks in the 1970s and
`1980s.................................................................................................... 12
`Communicatively-coupled portable and wearable computing in
`the 1990s .............................................................................................. 14
`C. Wireless personal area networks ......................................................... 20
`D. Applicant’s admitted prior art ............................................................. 24
`THE ’233 PATENT ..................................................................................... 27
`A. Overview ............................................................................................. 27
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`Priority claims for the ’233 patent....................................................... 29
`VII. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ........................................................................ 32
`A.
`“means for signaling the bi-directional communications module
`to transition from the powered-down state to the powered-up
`state” .................................................................................................... 33
`VIII. OVERVIEW OF THE PRIOR ART ........................................................... 35
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`Jacobsen .............................................................................................. 35
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`Say ....................................................................................................... 43
`C. Quy ...................................................................................................... 52
`D. Geva ..................................................................................................... 56
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`Reber.................................................................................................... 58
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`Gabai ................................................................................................... 61
`THE PRIOR ART DISCLOSES AND/OR SUGGESTS ALL THE
`FEATURES OF CLAIMS 1, 7-10, 13-16, 22 AND 24-26 OF THE
`’233 PATENT .............................................................................................. 62
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`A. Ground 1: Jacobsen discloses the features of claims 1, 7-10,
`and 14 of the ’233 patent ..................................................................... 62
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`Claim 1 .................................................................................. 63
`[1p] A bi-directional wireless communication system
`comprising: .................................................................... 63
`[1a] (a) a first personal device, the first personal device
`further comprising: ........................................................ 65
`[1b] (i) a processor; .................................................................. 68
`[1c] (ii) a memory; ................................................................... 75
`[1d] (iii) a power supply; ......................................................... 76
`[1e] (iv) at least one detector input; and .................................. 78
`[1f] (v) a short-range bi-directional wireless
`communications module; ............................................... 82
`[1g] (b) a second device communicating with the first
`device, the second device having a short-range bi-
`directional wireless communications module
`compatible with the short-range bi-directional
`wireless communications module of the first
`device; and ..................................................................... 86
`[1h] (c) a security mechanism governing information
`transmitted between the first personal device and
`the second device. .......................................................... 93
`Claim 7 .................................................................................. 95
`2.
`Claim 8 .................................................................................. 98
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`Claim 9 ................................................................................ 100
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`Claim 10 .............................................................................. 101
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`Claim 14 .............................................................................. 104
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`B. Ground 2: Say discloses and/or suggests the features of
`claims 1, 7-10, and 14 of the ’233 patent .......................................... 106
`1.
`Claim 1 ................................................................................ 106
`[1p] A bi-directional wireless communication system
`comprising: .................................................................. 106
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`[1a] (a) a first personal device, the first personal device
`further comprising: ...................................................... 108
`[1b] (i) a processor; ................................................................ 112
`[1c] (ii) a memory; ................................................................. 115
`[1d] (iii) a power supply; ....................................................... 118
`[1e] (iv) at least one detector input; and ................................ 120
`[1f] (v) a short-range bi-directional wireless
`communications module; ............................................. 127
`[1g] (b) a second device communicating with the first
`device, the second device having a short-range bi-
`directional wireless communications module
`compatible with the short-range bi-directional
`wireless communications module of the first
`device; and ................................................................... 133
`[1h] (c) a security mechanism governing information
`transmitted between the first personal device and
`the second device. ........................................................ 137
`Claim 7 ................................................................................ 140
`2.
`Claim 8 ................................................................................ 142
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`Claim 9 ................................................................................ 149
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`Claim 10 .............................................................................. 150
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`Claim 14 .............................................................................. 151
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`C. Ground 3: Jacobsen in view of Say discloses and/or suggests
`the features of claims 1, 7-10, and 14 of the ’233 patent .................. 153
`1.
`Claim 1 ................................................................................ 153
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`Claims 7-10 and 14 ............................................................. 158
`D. Ground 4: Jacobsen in view of Say and Quy discloses and/or
`suggests the features of claim 13 of ’233 patent .............................. 158
`1.
`Claim 13 .............................................................................. 159
`Ground 5: Jacobsen in view of Say and Geva discloses and/or
`suggests the features of claims 24-25 of the ’233 patent .................. 166
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`Claim 24 .............................................................................. 166
`1.
`Claim 25 .............................................................................. 175
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`Ground 6: Jacobsen in view of Say and Reber discloses and/or
`suggests the features of claim 26 of the ’233 patent ......................... 176
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`Claim 26 .............................................................................. 176
`G. Ground 7: Say in view of Gabai discloses and/or suggests the
`features of claims 15-16 and 22 of the ’233 patent ........................... 186
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`Claim 15 .............................................................................. 186
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`Claim 16 .............................................................................. 194
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`Claim 22 .............................................................................. 196
`CONCLUSION ......................................................................................... 197
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`I, Dr. Joseph Paradiso, declare as follows:
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION
`I have been retained as an independent expert consultant in this
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`proceeding before
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`the United States Patent
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`and Trademark Office
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`(“PTO”) regarding U.S. Patent No. 7,088,233 (“the ’233 patent”) (Ex. 1001).1 I
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`have been asked to consider, among other things, whether certain references
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`disclose or suggest the features recited in claims 1, 7-10, 13-16, 22, 24-26 (“the
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`challenged claims”) of the ’233 patent. My opinions are set forth below.
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`2.
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`I am being compensated at my normal rate of $600/hour for the time I
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`spend working on this proceeding. My compensation is not dependent on the
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`nature of my findings, or the outcome of this proceeding or any other proceeding.
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`I have no other interest in this proceeding.
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`II. QUALIFICATIONS
`3. My qualifications for forming the opinions in this report are
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`summarized here and explained in more detail in my curriculum vitae, which I
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`understand is provided as Exhibit 1003.
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`1 In this declaration, I refer to exhibit numbers that I understand are assigned to
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`documents that will be attached with the petition for Inter Partes Review of the
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`’233 patent.
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`I received a B.S. in electrical engineering and physics from Tufts
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`University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of
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`Technology (MIT) in 1981. Currently, I am the Alexander W. Dreyfoos (1954)
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`Professor and Associate Academic Head in the Program in Media Arts and
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`Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory.
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`5.
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`For over three decades, I have been involved with the research and
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`development of sensor technology in a variety of applications. For example, after
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`receiving my Ph.D., I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute
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`of Technology (ETH) in Zurich from 1981 to 1983, where I worked on sensor
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`technology for high-energy particle physics. Following my post-doctoral position
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`at ETH, I was a physicist at the Draper Laboratory until 1994, where I was a
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`member of the Control and Decision Systems Directorate and Sensor and Signal
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`Processing Directorate. There, my research encompassed spacecraft control
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`systems, image processing algorithms, underwater sonar, and precision alignment
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`sensors for large high-energy physics detectors.
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`In 1994, I joined the MIT Media Lab, a research laboratory, founded
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`in 1985, that promotes a unique, cross-disciplinary culture and focuses on highly-
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`collaborative research that joins seemingly disparate technological and academic
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`fields. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have pioneered areas such as wearable
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`computing, tangible interfaces, and affective computing, which has led to
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`numerous products and platforms that have become a ubiquitous part of consumer
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`life today. Examples of technologies that have spun off from the Media Lab’s
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`research include e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook,
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`the popular video game Guitar Hero, the MPEG-4 structured audio format, the first
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`bionic lower-leg system for amputees, wireless mesh networks developed by
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`Nortel, and the Mercury RFID Reader, commercialized by spin-off ThingMagic.
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`Today, the Lab is supported by more than 80 members, including some of the
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`world’s leading corporations that represent the fields of electronics, entertainment,
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`fashion, health care, toys, and telecommunications, among others. Currently,
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`faculty members, research staff, and students work in over 25 research groups and
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`initiatives on more than 450 projects that range from digital approaches for treating
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`neurological disorders, to advancing imaging technologies that can “see around a
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`corner,” to the word’s first “smart” powered ankle-foot prosthesis.
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`7. When I joined the Media Lab, I focused on developing new sensing
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`modalities for human-computer interaction, which, by 1997, evolved into wearable
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`and non-wearable wireless sensing and distributed sensor networks to measure
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`movement activity. This work anticipated and influenced transformative products
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`and industries that have blossomed in recent years.
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`For example, in 1997, I developed a shoe with wireless sensors for
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`measuring dynamic movement of the human foot during, for example, interactive
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`dance and other physical activities. The shoe was intended to capture motion data,
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`which were mapped into different information representations to facilitate
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`interactivity. The design of this sensor-laden wireless shoe is now recognized as a
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`watershed in the field of wireless sensing for activity tracking and was an
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`inspiration for the Nike+, one of the very first activity trackers and the first
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`commercial product to integrate dynamic music with monitored exercise. My team
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`went on to pioneer on-shoe sensor architecture for clinical gait analysis in
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`collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 2002. We then
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`worked in sports medicine with another MGH collaboration that developed an
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`attachable, ultra-wide-range, wireless inertial measurement unit system for
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`evaluating professional baseball pitchers and batters in 2007.
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`9.
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`Leading to over 300 publications, at least 17 issued patents, and a
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`string of awards in the Pervasive Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, and
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`sensor network communities, my research has become the basis for widely
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`established curricula. Many of these publications are directed to fixed, wearable,
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`or portable sensor devices. I have also advised over 55 graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.)
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`theses for students who have done their work in my research group, and served as a
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`reader for roughly 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students in other groups and at other
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`universities.
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`10.
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`I have given over 300 invited talks, panel appearances, and seminars
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`worldwide, recently keynoting on topics relating to ubiquitous sensing and the
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`Internet of Things (IoT) for prestigious venues ranging from the Sensors Expo (the
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`main industrial sensors conference) to the World Economic Forum. I am
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`frequently asked to address industrial groups on sensing systems and IoT. For
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`example, I recently gave the opening keynote at IoT Solutions World Congress in
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`Barcelona, the leading Industrial IoT event, and I have been on the Editorial Board
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`(and have served as Associate Editor in Chief) of IEEE Pervasive Computing
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`Magazine (the original flagship publication in this area) since 2006. I often engage
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`with the Media Lab’s extensive list of industrial partners in strategizing these
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`areas.
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`11.
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`I also belong
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`to and participate
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`in numerous professional
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`organizations. I am a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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`Engineers (IEEE), and also belong to the Association for Computer Machinery
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`(ACM). I also belong to the American Physical Society (the major professional
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`society in physics), and am a senior member in the American Institute of
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`Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Within the IEEE, I belong to the Signal
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`Processing Society, the Controls Society, and the Computer Society. I have served
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`on many Technical Program Committees (which solicit, review, and select papers
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`for academic conferences) and journal editorial boards. I have also organized
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`academic conferences in areas such as wireless sensor networks, wearable
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`computing and wearable sensing, human-computer
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`interfaces, ubiquitous
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`computing, and the like.
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`III. SUMMARY OF OPINIONS AND MATERIALS CONSIDERED2
`12. All of the opinions contained in this declaration are based on the
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`documents I reviewed and my professional judgment, as well as my education,
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`experience, and knowledge regarding computer networking. I am not an attorney
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`and I am not offering any legal opinions in this declaration.
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`13.
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`In forming my opinions expressed in this declaration, I reviewed:
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`• the ’233 patent (Ex. 1001);
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`• the prosecution file history for the ’233 patent (Ex. 1004);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,198,394 (“Jacobsen”) (Ex. 1005);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,175,752 (“Say”) (Ex. 1006);
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`2 My citations to non-patent publications are to the original page numbers of the
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`publication, and my citations to U.S. Patents or Patent Applications are to the
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`column:line number or paragraph number, as applicable.
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,602,191 (“Quy”) (Ex. 1007);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,366,871 (“Geva”) (Ex. 1008);
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`• Kaveh Pahlavan, Ali Zahedi, and Prashant Krishnamurthy,
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`“Wireband Local Access: Wireless LAN and Wireless ATM,” IEEE
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`Communications Magazine, Vol. 35 Issue 11, November 1997,
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`pgs. 34-40 (Ex. 1009);
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`• Paradiso, J.A., Hsiao, K., Benbasat, A. and Teegarden, Z., “Design
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`and Implementation of Expressive Footwear,” IBM Systems
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`Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3&4, October 2000, pp. 511-529 (Ex. 1010);
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`• Paradiso, J.A. “The Brain Opera Technology: New Instruments
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`and Gestural Sensors for Musical Interaction and
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`Performance,” Journal of New Music Research, 28(2), 1999, pp.
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`130-149 (Ex. 1011);
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`• Specification of the Bluetooth System, Vol. 1, Bluetooth v1.0B
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`(Dec. 1, 1999) (Ex. 1012);
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`• Provisional application No. 60/105,493 (Ex. 1013);
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`• Provisional application No. 60/135,862 (Ex. 1014);
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`• Provisional application No. 60/279,401 (Ex. 1015);
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`• Digital Networks’ “RoamAbout 2.4 GHz frequency hopping
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`wireless LAN adapters” (1996) (Ex. 1018);
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`• Shawn Willett, “Digital ships tools for mobile clients,” InfoWorld,
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`February 7, 1994 (Ex. 1019);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 5,961,451 (“Reber”) (Ex. 1020);
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`• Distributed Sensor Networks, Proceedings of a Workshop held at
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`Carnegie-Mellon University December 7-8, 1978 (available at
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`https://resenv.media.mit.edu/classarchive/MAS961/readings/DSN_
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`CMU_1978.pdf) (Ex. 1021);
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`• ‘Sensor networks: evolution, opportunities, and challenges,” IEEE
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`Proceedings, Aug. 2003 (Ex. 1022);
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`• Mark Weiser, “The Computer for the 21st Century,” Scientific
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`American (1991) (Ex. 1023);
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`• Richard S. Johnston et al., “Biomedical Results of Apollo” (1975)
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`(available at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-368/sp368.htm) (Ex.
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`1024);
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`• Steve Mann, “Wearable computing: A first step toward personal
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`imaging”, IEEE Computer vol. 30 no. 2, pgs. 25-32 (Feb. 1997)
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`(Ex. 1025);
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`• Steve Feiner, “A Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile
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`Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban
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`Environment,” Personal Technologies, pgs. 208-217 (1997) (Ex.
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`1026);
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`• Kris Goodfellow, One Digital Day in Her Life, N.Y. Times, Apr.
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`16, 1998 (available at:
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`http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/16/technology/one-digital-day-
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`in-her-life.html) (Ex. 1027);
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`• Maria S. Redin, “Marathon Man” thesis, MIT Media Laboratory,
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`June 15, 1998 (Ex. 1029);
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`• Brian Clarkson and Alex Pentland, “Predicting Daily Behavior via
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`Wearable Sensors,” Technical report, MIT Media Laboratory, July
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`2001 (available at
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`https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2fd4/7fe8b3c65bfb32ffe91c61686
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`9e071c4894a.pdf) (Ex. 1031);
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`• Brian Clarkson and Alex Pentland, “Unsupervised Clustering of
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`Ambulatory Audio and Video,” ICASSP, March 1999 (Ex. 1032);
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`• Joseph Paradiso, “Expressive footwear for computer-augmented
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`dance performance,” ISWC ’97: Proceedings of the 1st IEEE
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`International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 1997
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`(Ex. 1033);
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`• Robert Poor, “Hyphos: A Self-Organizing, Wireless Network,”
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`MIT Master’s thesis, 1997 (Ex. 1034);
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`• Per Johansson et al., “Short Range Radio Based Ad-hoc
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`Networking: Performance and Properties,” ICC’99, 1999 (Ex.
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`1036);
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`• Application no. 09/384,165 (Ex. 1038);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,160,986 (“Gabai”) (Ex. 1040);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,026,165 (“Marino”) (Ex. 1041);
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`• U.S. Patent No. 5,408,250 (“Bier”) (Ex. 1042)
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`My opinions are additionally guided by my appreciation of how a person of
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`ordinary skill in the art would have understood the claims of the ’233 patent at the
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`time of the alleged inventions.
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`14. Based on my experience and expertise, it is my opinion that certain
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`references disclose or suggest all the features recited in claims 1, 7-10, 13-16, 22,
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`24-26 of the ’233 patent.
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`IV. LEVEL OF ORDINARY SKILL IN THE ART
`15. At the time of the alleged inventions a person of ordinary skill in the
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`art (“POSITA”) would have had at least a B.S. in computer science, electrical
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`engineering, or an equivalent, and at least two years of experience in the relevant
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`field, i.e., wireless communications. More education can substitute for practical
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`experience and vice versa. I apply this understanding in my analysis herein.
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`16.
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`In determining the level of ordinary skill, I have considered, for
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`example, the types of problems encountered in the art and prior solutions to these
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`problems,
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`the rapidity with which
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`innovations are
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`typically made,
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`the
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`sophistication of the technology, and the educational level and experience of
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`workers in the field.
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`17. My analysis of the ’233 patent and my opinions in this declaration are
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`from the perspective of a POSITA, as I have defined it above, during the relevant
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`time frame (see section VI.B). During this time frame, I possessed at least the
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`qualifications of a POSITA, as defined above.
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` TECHNOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
`In this section, I provide an overview of certain technologies, systems,
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`and concepts that were known in the art at or before the dates of the alleged
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`inventions of the ’233 patent. I believe the technologies and concepts I describe
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`below were widely known and appreciated by POSITAs at or before that time. I
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`rely on at least the discussions below (including references cited therein) to
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`demonstrate the state of the art known to POSITAs at that time, which supports my
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`opinions and analysis regarding the ’233 patent and my opinions and analysis
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`provided in section IX
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`A. Electronic sensing and computer networks in the 1970s and 1980s
`19. Personal monitoring with electronic sensors has been well-known
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`since at least the second half of the 20th century. Early examples of practical
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`electronic sensing in the context of personal monitoring grew out of NASA’s space
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`program. Crewman of the Apollo missions, for example, “wore a biosensor
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`harness which provided a means of transmitting critical physiological data to the
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`ground.” Ex. 1024, 61. The harness, which provided “real-time telemetry of vital
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`biomedical information,” included sensors for obtaining an “electrocardiogram,
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`heart rate, and respiratory pattern and rate data.” Id. The wearable sensors also
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`included sensing means
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`for
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`recording and
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`transmitting media: “Voice
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`communications and real-time television observations, coupled with monitoring of
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`the vital signs, provided the medical basis for an inflight clinical profile of the
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`Apollo astronauts.” Id. The data obtained from wearable sensors was displayed on
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`remote monitors at the launch and at mission control centers. Id.; see also id. at
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`485-93.
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`Example of a biobelt from the Apollo missions being worn with the electrode
`sensors in place. Id. at 491
`Around the same time, advancements in computer networking research were
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`yielding practical applications. The precursor for the Internet—i.e., ARPANET—
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`was built by DARPA and successfully implemented in the late 1960s.
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`20. The combination of the distributed sensors and computer networking,
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`i.e., sensor networks, were gestated mainly under DARPA funding, starting in the
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`1970s. See Ex. 1021. These sensor networks were described as “a group of sensor
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`devices connected by a communications networking trying to achieve a common
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`goal—deriving an accurate world picture.” Id. at 38. As compact wireless
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`networking technologies and capable microcomputer scaling were still fairly
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`undeveloped at that time, these systems were mainly wired or hypothetical until the
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`1990s, when building practical wireless systems began to be feasible. Again, much
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`of this work was spurred by DARPA, this time under its SensIT program. Many
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`papers from this program appeared in the 90s and made their way into the popular
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`press at the time. See e.g., Ex. 1022.
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`21. The idea of ubiquitously networking artifacts of daily life to form a
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`new paradigm in Human-Computer Interfaces was first and famously elucidated by
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`Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC in his visionary article ‘The Computer for the 21st
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`Century’ published in Scientific American in 1989. Ex. 1023. This article spoke
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`of what Weiser called Ubiquitous Computing, where processing, networking and
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`sensing would be in essentially everything, fundamentally changing the way we
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`interact with things and information. Weiser punctuates the article with examples
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`drawn from his group at PARC that pointed at possibilities extrapolated from the
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`technology available at the time. This article (and the enormous flood of research
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`that it inspired) foreshadowed the Internet of Things.
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`B. Communicatively-coupled portable and wearable computing in
`the 1990s
`22. By the 1990s, researchers had begun development of the concept of
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`wearable computing. These pioneers were living in a world of distributed sensing,
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`interface, and display, all arrayed on-body. They believed even then that the future
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`of computing was to be up close and personal, always on, and with capabilities at
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`the right place—e.g., a display at the eyes and an interface near the hands,
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`ubiquitously networked to nearby and remote artifacts and resources with wireless
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`and cellular links, etc. These researchers did not just speculate, patent, or write
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`about it these concepts; they developed and lived with these systems. Several of
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`them were close colleagues of mine at the MIT Media Lab at the time (see image
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`below). Steve Mann, now a longstanding professor at the University of Toronto,
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`was (and still is) one of the field’s most poignant visionaries, and Thad Starner,
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`now a professor at Georgia Tech, went on to be one of the chief developers of
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`Google Glass. Steve Mann traces his fielded wearable systems back to 1980 in his
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`landmark survey article “Wearable computing: A first step toward personal
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`imaging”, IEEE Computer Feb. 1997. Ex. 1025. Steve’s wearable rig back then
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`incorporated many of the challenged claims’ features, including wearable user
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`interfaces, heart-rate and other monitors, GPS and other localization systems, and a
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`variety of wireless links.
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`MIT Wearable Computing Evangelists outside the Media Lab in the mid 90s – note
`Steve Mann at left and Thad Starner at right.
`23. The MIT Media Lab’s wearable researchers openly published and
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`posted profusely during the 1990s, and many of their papers (and selected papers
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`from other groups) are listed and linked on the Media Lab’s website. See
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`http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/papers.html.
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`24. The Media Lab hosted the world’s first conference dedicated to
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`Wearable Computing (ISWC) at MIT back in October of 1997, an event that is
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`continuing to this day. One of many papers of note at the 1997 symposium was
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`written by Prof. Steve Feiner and his team from Columbia University: ‘A Touring
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`Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the
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`Urban Environment’. Ex. 1026. This paper describes classic, well-known
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`pioneering work in mobile augmented reality, where his subjects would walk
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`around Manhattan with a wearable computer then in a backpack, coupled to a
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`separate GPS receiver, and including a “head-tracked, see-through, headworn, 3D
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`display, and an untracked, opaque, handheld, 2D display with stylus and trackpad”
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`with a RF wireless network link. A comprehensive history of significant mobile
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`AR
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`research
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`and
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`development
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`is
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`presented
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`here:
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`https://www.icg.tugraz.at/~daniel/HistoryOfMobileAR/
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`25. The wearable community also explored physiological and health-
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`related monitoring in their prototype systems back in the 1990s. In addition to
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`Mann, researchers like Rosalind Picard (Mann’s advisor) and Dr. Jenn Healey used
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`distributed biosensors in wearable systems for pioneering research in affective
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`computing and e-health. Dr. Healey’s work on affective wearables was featured in
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`the New York Times. See Ex. 1027. Dr. Picard’s group web page from 1997
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`includes articles on many other related projects conducted by the group around this
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`time, including those using a multip