Sentius International, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation

Filing 66

CLAIMS CONSTRUCTION ORDER. Signed by Judge Paul S. Grewal on January 9, 2014. (psglc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 1/9/2014)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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United States District Court
For the Northern District of California

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SAN JOSE DIVISION

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SENTIUS INTERNATIONAL, LLC,

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Plaintiff,

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v.
MICROSOFT CORPORATION,

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Defendant.

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Case No.: 5:13-cv-00825-PSG
CLAIMS CONSTRUCTION ORDER
(Re: Docket No. 51-1)

In this patent infringement suit, Plaintiff Sentius International, LLC asserts that

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Defendant Microsoft Corporation infringed one or more claims within four of its patents. 1

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Consistent with Patent L.R. 4-3(c), the parties seek construction of terms and phrases of the

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patents-in-suit. The parties appeared for a claims construction hearing yesterday. As the court

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previewed at the conclusion of the hearing, the court will proceed to issue its constructions now
without setting forth its reasoning and analysis.

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See Docket No. 1 (asserting infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,672,985 (“the ’985 patent”) and
8,214,349 (“the ’349 patent”) as well as United States Reissue Patent Nos. RE 40,731
(“the ’731 patent”) and RE 43,633 (“the ’633 patent”). The parties represented at the hearing that
no claims from the ’349 patent would be asserted at trial and, thus, the court does not construe any
claim terms from the ’349 patent.
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CLAIMS CONSTRUCTION ORDER

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CLAIM TERM/DISPUTE

CONSTRUCTION

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“database”
The ’633, ’731, and ’985 patents

a collection of data with a given structure for
accepting, storing and providing, on demand,
data for at least one user

“a link to the at least one of the plurality of
external reference materials/links to the external
reference materials”
The ’633 and ’731 patents

a pointer to data or information or the location
of data or information that is external to the
source material
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pointers to data or information or the location of
data or information that is external to the source
material

“syndicating” / ”syndicated”
The ’985 patent (claims 1, 11)

making content available for automatic
download over a network to one or more remote
subscribed computers

“linking the identified content with the at least
one term”
The ’985 patent (claim 11)
“linking to the supplemental content”
The ’985 patent (claim 16)

[create/creating] a pointer to data or information
or the location of data or information that is
external to the source material

“term module”
The ’985 patent (claim 11)

112 ¶ (f) applies.
Function: parsing one or more documents to
identify at least one term based on at least one
rule
Structure: a computer processor in conjunction
with executable code for instructing the
computer processor to parse one or more
documents to identify at least one term based on
at least one rule, and equivalents thereof

“processing module”
The ’985 patent (claim 11)

112 ¶ (f) applies.
Function: “identifying content for the at least
one term”
Structure: a computer processor in conjunction
with executable code for instructing the
computer processor to identify content for the at
least one term, and equivalents thereof

Whether the method steps of the ’633 and ’731
patents must be performed in the orders written

Yes.

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Case No.: 5:13-cv-00825-PSG
CLAIMS CONSTRUCTION ORDER