Google Inc. v. Rockstar Consortium US LP et al

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COMPLAINT for Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 400, receipt number 0971-8252154.). Filed byGoogle Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G, # 8 Civil Cover Sheet)(Warren, Matthew) (Filed on 12/23/2013)

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EXHIBIT D US006333973B1 (12) United States Patent Smith et al. (54) US 6,333,973 B1 (10) Patent N0.: (45) Date of Patent: INTEGRATED MESSAGE CENTER *Dec. 25, 2001 (75) 5,742,905 * Finlay Beaton, Orleans, both of (CA) 8/1998 5,815,506 * Inventors: Colin Donald Smith, Ottawa; Brian 4/1998 Pepe et al. ......................... .. 455/461 5,794,142 * 9/1998 Gokhale --------- -- Notice: -- 370/524 5,842,141 * 11/1998 Vaihoja et al. ..................... .. 455/574 (73) Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited (CA) (*) Vantilla et al. .................... .. 455/419 (Llst Con?rmed on next page‘) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS This patent issued on a continued pros ecution application ?led under 37 CFR 1.53(d), and is subject to the tWenty year patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. 0 630 141 0 691 777 W0 96 15490 154(a)(2)_ 12/1994 (EP) 1/1996 (EP) 5/1996 (EP) ' 10/1996 (JP) . 8268227 Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this Pawnt is extended or adjusted under 35 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Hattori et al., “A Multimedia Intelligent Message Commu U-S-C- 154(k)) by 0 days- nication System for Distributed Coordination Environ ments,” Electronics & Communications in Japan, Part (21) Appl. No.: 08/842,020 - 1—Communications, vol. 76, No. 1, Jan. 1, 1993, pp. 11—23. _ “Nokia 9000 Communicator User’s Manual,” Nokia Cor (22) Flled' Apr‘ 23’ 1997 poration, 1996, pp. 1—1 through 16—1 (48 pages total). (51) Int. Cl.7 ......................... .. H04M 1/64; H04M 11/00; (52) US. Cl. ................ .. 379/8812; 379/67.1; 379/8811; H04M 3/42; H04Q 7/20 Primary Examiner—Allan Hoosain (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Finnegan, Henderson, 379/8822; 379/9308; 455/412; 455/413; _ (58) FarabOW, Garrett & Dunner, L-L-P 455/466 (57) ABSTRACT Field of Search ............................ .. 379/8801, 88.11, 379/93.01, 93.08, 93.17, 100.01, 100.08, 88.22, 111, 112, 113, 211, 230, 246, 88.12, An integrated message center operates on telecommunica tions equipment, having a display and a processor, to con 114.06, 114.07, 88.23, 88.24; 455/445, 517, 417, 459, 419, 433, 466, 422, 38-1, 412, 413, 414; 370/347, 337, 349, 498, 524; 341/20—23 (56) solidate messages of different types for vieWing and manipu lation by a user. The telecommunications equipment receives noti?cation messages corresponding to pending messages of different types and determines the message type of the pending messages. The integrated message center References Clted associates a message type indicator With each of the received U'S' PATENT DOCUMENTS noti?cation messages based on the determined message type and displays on the display a portion of the received noti 5,228,029 * 5,283,638 * 7/1993 KotZin ............................... .. 370/95.1 2/1994 Engberg et al- --------------------- -- 348/14 5,327,486 * 7/1994 Woltf et al. .......................... .. 379/96 * , ?cation messages and the associated message type indicators as entries in a single selectable list. The user can select one of the pending messages for retrieval based on the entries in 5103129; et al- - , y e- the single selectable list. In response to user selection, the omson .... .. 5,568,540 * 10/1996 Greco etal. ..... .. ~ ~ .. 379/88 5,583,920 * 12/1996 Wheeler, Jr. ......................... .. 379/88 5,608,786 * 5,719,918 * 3/1997 - czgéeingitini‘lftsioghi sitllicfirpendmg g g p y Gordon .............................. .. 379/100 2/1998 Serbetciouglu et al. ............. .. 379/58 @ 33 Claims, 16 Drawing Sheets 5200 5500 5600 f / TRAU 5100 64 kb/s IWF T1 vglgvnéélt (519a 5300 / 0.3 kb/s FAX MAIL SMS TCP/IP SERVER “"5700 SEE'RAO'EE $5800 ‘9 @466 5400 BACKUP TCPIIP r5900 " US 6,333,973 B1 Page 2 US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5870 , 549 * , 2/1999 B 0 b 0, H 579037832 * 5/1999 Seppanen et a1‘ 5,905,959 ........................ .. 5,966,663 * 10/1999 Gleason ............................. .. 455/466 395/200 . 36 6,055,424 * * * 5/1999 Foladare et a1. 5,911,485 * 6/1999 Rossman ................................ .. 34/22 . 455/445 _ 4/2000 Tornqvist et a1. . 6,205,139 455/414 3/2001 Volt .................................... .. 370/389 _ * cued by examlner 455/414 U.S. Patent Dw u, m. m am US 6,333,973 B1 wV%oES>mAEwz 8:v .QE uEo m/m $%0w2z5i9motgw CIDDEI DUDE! U.S. Patent Dec. 25, 2001 Sheet 2 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 1100 ~2200 2100 N 8%, Q E] BRAD JOHNSON @ (613) 733-8024 HOLD HANG UP 499...... . NOTE QUICK PAD NAME LNOTES LIST U.S. Patent Dec- 25, 2001 Sheet 4 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 3440 GUI MANAGER p“ USER APPLICATIONS PJ SERVICES CLASS "J JAVA ENVIRONMENT /~~/ 4100 4200 4300 4400 RToS UTILITIES /~E/4500 DEVICE DRIVERS /~~/4600 FIG. 4 U.S. Patent Dec. 25,2001 Sheet 5 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 .GI m U.S. Patent Dec. 25,2001 Sheet 6 6f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 ~V61OO 2400 A I BOBBY BONITO 1% 738-9157 ezoo/fiifff' 55]") 824-6721 % 824-5321 g1") 521—6704 & NOTE PAD OUICK NOTES FIG. 6 U.S. Patent Dec. 25,2001 Sheet 9 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 in?mcoBmQ .3m_<w >w AE?S65EE .QE mm :30 i3co5nm9?g @ mm; 02 “1mg?E6512 wam< ZIO mxP0O5Z w0m4PO¢Z U.S. Patent Dec. 25, 2001 I Sheet 10 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 RECD 24/06/95 1éE'I4 BRIAN BEATON 5]") (613) 238-6602 IFTA LK DISCARD QUIT PAUSE RWN D Fl" NOTE LPAD OUICK NOTES NAME LIST J FIG. 10 U.S. Patent Dec. 25,2001 Sheet 11 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 RECD 24/06/95 173217-14 CDG STUDIO FAX-j 765-6775 VIEW DISCARD QUIT FOEWARD TO: ‘_'_'b FAX OFFICE FAT? HOME FAX‘ OTHER —b FAX NAME —b FAX NUMBER NOTE kPAD OUICK NAME NOTES LIST ) FIG. 11 U.S. Patent Dec. 25, 2001 US 6,333,973 B1 Sheet 12 0f 16 RECD 24/06/95 1 COLIN SMITH er smith@nortel.ca 3((TALK DISCARD QUIT TO: ANDREW CONNELLY FROM: COLIN SMITH O RE: WEDNESDAY MORNINGS SALES MEETING THE WEDNESDAY MORNING SALES MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 9200 (6 L PAD OUICK NAME NOTES NOTE LIST J FIG. 12 U.S. Patent Dec. 25,2001 PmZFOwZ Sheet 14 0f 16 US 6,333,973 B1 Q.2U.I 02 mm; w :023m0 56;i?8. % mwiou?v) l i rm125.2,7:09 .2 5% <6» M QO 02G. E U.S. Patent Dec. 25,2001 Sheet 16 0f 16 Aw8218 %28596. . US 6,333,973 B1 m.Q“I US 6,333,973 B1 1 2 INTEGRATED MESSAGE CENTER If the user then Wanted to vieW a received SMS message, hoWever, the user must return to the main menu to select RELATED APPLICATIONS “Received short messages.” In response, the internal pro cessor launches the SMS application to display a list of This application is related to US. patent application, Ser. No. 08/842,015, entitled MULTITASKING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE; US. patent application, Ser. No. 08/841,485, entitled ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARDS; US. patent application, Ser. No. 08/841,486, entitled 5 desired one. Telephones of this type, hoWever, suffer from a number of draWbacks. First, they store in their internal memory all received messages, eXcept voice and e-mail messages Which SCROLLING WITH AUTOMATIC COMPRESSION AND EXPANSION; US. patent application, Ser. No. 08/842,019, entitled CLID WITH LOCATION ICON; US. patent application, Ser. No. 08/842,017, entitled CLID WITH DRAG AND DROP CAPABILITY; and US. patent application, Ser. No. 08/842,036, entitled ICONIZED NAME LIST, all of Which Were ?led concurrently hereWith, and all of Which are hereby incorporated by reference. 10 15 20 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 25 Systems and methods consistent With the present inven tion address this need by providing an integrated message center that graphically displays different types of received messages together to facilitate user vieWing and manipula by calling and interacting With a voice mail service using dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) commands. Such With the office voice mail service, While pressing “6” With the home voice mail service, meant “play the message.” that cause speci?c applications to be eXecuted. Therefore, a need eXists to integrate different types of messages from different types of equipment into one graphi cal location to notify the user of pending messages and their type, and to alloW the user to vieW and respond to the messages by simple operation. forWarding, playback, and response by the user. retrieval of messages, hoWever, required the user to dial the voice mail service and listen to each message, or minimally the header of each message, that is, the name of the person and the time received. This type of voice mail retrieval tended to be a sloW and tedious process. Additionally, the user needed to memoriZe the DTMF number commands to control the voice mail service. Some times these commands Were different for the user’s home voice mail service and the user’s of?ce voice mail service. For eXample, the user needed to remember that pressing “1” the telephones are menu driven and contain separate appli cations for the different message types. To vieW different types of messages, the user must folloW a series of menus graphical scanning, prioritiZing, editing, selection, vieWing, Traditionally, a user could retrieve only voice messages are stored at an external server. This Wastes precious memory space, and as a result, feWer messages can be locally stored. Additionally, message handling is cumbersome because BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to the ?eld of message handling, and more speci?cally to the ?eld of message presentation to a user by Which messages of all types are consolidated and graphically displayed in a searchable list to alloW for easy received SMS messages from Which the user selects the 30 35 tion of the messages Without having to folloW a series of menus or launch separate applications. In accordance With the purpose of the invention as embodied and broadly described herein, an integrated mes sage center consistent With the principles of the present invention operates on telecommunications equipment, hav ing a display and a processor, to consolidate messages of different types for vieWing and manipulation by a user. The telecommunications equipment receives noti?cation mes 40 sages corresponding to pending messages of different types and determines the message type of the pending messages. has a display, a keypad, and numerous hard keys, and uses 45 The integrated message center associates a message type indicator With each of the received noti?cation messages based on the determined message type and displays on the display a portion of the received noti?cation messages and the associated message type indicators as entries in a single More recently, telephones have been designed With the capability to directly receive, or doWnload, different types of messages, such as faXes, e-mail, and Short Messaging Ser vice (SMS) messages. One conventional mobile telephone menus to enable a user to vieW different types of received selectable list. The user can select one of the pending messages. When a message arrives, an internal processor detects the message type and stores the message in a folder dedicated to the message type. If the telephone receives a faX, for messages for retrieval based on the entries in the single selectable list. In response to user selection, the integrated message center retrieves the selected pending message for 50 eXample, the internal processor stores the far in a faX folder. When the user opens the cover to the display, the internal BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS processor displays a note indicating the quantity and type of messages received. For eXample, if tWo faXes and tWo SMS messages have been received, the note Will shoW “You have: 2 unread faXes and 2 unread short messages.” The accompanying draWings, Which are incorporated in 55 principles of the invention. In the draWings, goes to the main menu and selects the type of message to FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communications netWork con vieW. This causes the internal processor to launch a 60 from the message folder and display it for the user. For eXample, if the user Wants to read a received faX, the user selects “Received faxes” from the main menu. In response, the internal processor launches the faX application to display a list of received faXes. From the list, the user selects a 65 particular faX to read. The far application then displays the selected faX. and constitute a part of this speci?cation, illustrate systems and methods consistent With this invention and, together With the description, eXplain the objects, advantages and If the user Wants to vieW a received message, the user ?rst message-type speci?c application to retrieve the message vieWing and manipulation by the user. taining the integrated message center consistent With the principles of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a diagram of the user mobile telephone operating in the netWork of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the elements included in the user mobile telephone of FIG. 2; FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the softWare components stored in the ?ash ROM of FIG. 3; US 6,333,973 B1 4 3 FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the elements included in the NetWork services provider 1200 stores many of the mes sages aWaiting retrieval by the user and noti?es the user of network services provider of FIG. 1; the pending messages. Subscriber mobile telephone 1100 and caller equipment 1300 through 1700 communicate With FIG. 6 is an example of an idle screen of the user mobile telephone shoWn in FIG. 2; netWork services provider 1200 over a communications FIGS. 7A and 7B are eXample displays of received messages; FIG. 8A is an eXample display of a received SMS teXt message; FIG. 8B is an eXample display of a received electronic ink message; FIGS. 9A and 9B are eXample displays of SMS teXt netWork, such as Global System for Mobile Communica tions (GSM) sWitching fabric 1800. While FIG. 1 shoWs caller equipment 1300 through 1700 directly connected to GSM sWitching fabric 1800, this is not 10 connect to GSM sWitching fabric 1800 via another type of netWork, such as a Public SWitched Telephone NetWork messages With hypertext markup language code; FIG. 10 is an eXample display in Which the user selects to listen to a voice mail message; 15 (PSTN). When a caller uses telephone 1300 to communicate With the user, the caller dials the telephone number corresponding FIG. 11 is an eXample display in Which the user selects to forWard a faX; FIG. 12 is an eXample display of a received e-mail message; to mobile telephone 1100. If the user does not ansWer the call for a predetermined number of rings, or upon direction of the user (to be described), the call routes to netWork services provider 1200 over GSM sWitching fabric 1800 by conven tional mechanisms. NetWork services provider 1200 stores the message left by the caller as voice mail and sends a short message to mobile telephone 1100, notifying the user of the FIGS. 13A through 13D are eXample displays in Which the user responds to an ink message by sending an SMS message; FIGS. 14A and 14B are eXample displays in Which the user responds to an ink message by establishing a voice call; and FIGS. 15A and 15B are eXample displays in Which the typically the case. Telephone 1300, facsimile equipment 1500, computer 1600, and ADSI telephone 1700 normally pending voice mail message. 25 user receives a voice call and an SMS message, respectively. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS When the caller uses caller mobile telephone 1400 to communicate With the user, the caller may either call the user, as described above With regard to telephone 1300, or may send the user a Short Messaging Service (SMS) mes sage. GSM netWorks typically include an SMS server that provides the SMS service. The SMS service is an error-free, guaranteed delivery transport mechanism by Which callers The folloWing detailed description of the invention refers can send short point-to-point messages, i.e., SMS messages, to the accompanying draWings that illustrate preferred through the GSM netWork, such as GSM sWitching fabric 1800, in a GSM signaling channel, simultaneously With, or embodiments consistent With the principles of this inven tion. Other embodiments are possible and changes may be made to the embodiments Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The folloWing detailed descrip tion does not limit the invention. Instead, the scope of the 35 GSM protocol limits the length of the standard SMS teXt message to a maXimum of 140 bytes. HoWever, GSM protocol permits longer messages to be formed by concat enating several messages together, transparent to the caller. Because GSM protocol transparently performs this concat invention is de?ned only by the appended claims. The integrated message center consistent With the prin ciples of the present invention displays different types of received messages in a single display and permits manipu enating of messages, the caller sees no restriction on mes sage length. lation of the messages by a user, such that the user can vieW, discard, forWard, and respond to any type of message Without the need to launch different applications. Without, a voice or data call. If the caller chooses to send the user an SMS message, the 45 caller inputs the message data, and selects a destination corresponding to the user. GSM sWitching fabric 1800 I. System Architecture routes the message to an SMS server that services the area FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communications netWork con containing mobile telephone 1100, and the SMS server, in turn, relays the message to the user. When the caller uses facsimile equipment 1500 to send a faX to the user, the caller dials the faX telephone number taining the integrated message center consistent With the principles of the present invention. The integrated message center is a logical entity that resides in mobile telephone 1100 and operates in conjunction With netWork services provider 1200 to inform a user of incoming and pending messages, such as far mail, e-mail, voice mail, etc. The corresponding to netWork services provider 1200. The caller sends the faX to netWork services provider 1200. NetWork services provider 1200 stores the faX and then sends a short integrated message center also serves as a mechanism by 55 message to mobile telephone 1100, notifying the user of the pending faX. Which the user can retrieve, manipulate, and reply to all types of messages. User manipulation of the pending mes When the caller uses computer 1600 to send an e-mail message to the user, the caller enters the message into the sages might include the ability to vieW, prioritiZe, edit, playback, discard, and/or forWard messages. computer and af?Xes the user’s e-mail address. The user’s e-mail address directs the e-mail message to netWork ser The user uses mobile telephone 1100 to vieW messages from callers having different types of caller equipment, such as ordinary telephone 1300, caller mobile telephone 1400 vices provider 1200. NetWork services provider 1200 stores Which is similar to user mobile telephone 1100, facsimile mobile telephone 1100, notifying the user of the pending the e-mail message, and then sends a short message to equipment 1500, computer 1600, and Analog Display Ser different types of messages for the user, depending upon the e-mail message. When the caller uses ADSI telephone 1700 to communi cate With the user, the caller dials the telephone number type of caller equipment. corresponding to mobile telephone 1100, as described above vices Interface (ADSI) telephone 1700. The callers leave 65

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