Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.

Filing 94

NOTICE by Motorola Mobility, Inc. of Filing Brief on Claim Construction (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit, # 2 Exhibit, # 3 Exhibit, # 4 Exhibit, # 5 Exhibit, # 6 Exhibit, # 7 Exhibit, # 8 Exhibit, # 9 Exhibit, # 10 Exhibit, # 11 Exhibit, # 12 Exhibit, # 13 Exhibit, # 14 Exhibit, # 15 Exhibit, # 16 Exhibit, # 17 Exhibit, # 18 Exhibit, # 19 Exhibit, # 20 Exhibit, # 21 Exhibit, # 22 Exhibit, # 23 Exhibit, # 24 Exhibit, # 25 Exhibit, # 26 Exhibit, # 27 Exhibit, # 28 Exhibit, # 29 Exhibit, # 30 Exhibit, # 31 Affidavit)(Giuliano, Douglas)

Exhibit 16
to Motorola’s Opening Claim Construction Brief
July 28, 2011

MICROSOFT 'PRESS®

~·OMPUTER.
~

~·CTIONARY
SECOND

•

.EDITION

---------.-..------. THE COMPREHENSIVE .
STANDARD ·FOR
BUSINESS, SCHOOL, .
LIBRARY, AND HOME

®

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PUBLISHED BY
Microsoft Press
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burster

business information system

to maintain control of the bus while they send
speed. For other kinds of printers, throughput
mUltiple blocks of data. See also burst speed.
depends heavily on the paper-handling capabilities of the printer but is 'typically about half of
Burst also refers to the process of breaking
apart fanfold continuous-feed paper at its perfoburst speed. In comparing printers, relative burst
rations, resulting in a stack of separate sheets.
speeds are far less important than throughput
speeds.
burster A device u~ed to burst, or break apart at
the perforations, fanfold continuous-feed paper.
'bus A set of hardware lines-wi res-used for data
burst mode A method of data transfer in which
transfer among the components of a computer
information is collected and sent as a unit in one
system. A bus is essentially a shared highway that
connects different parts of the system-including
high-speed transmission. In burst mode,. an input/output device takes control of a multiplexer
the microprocessor, disk-drive controller, memory, and input/output ports-and enables them
channel for the time required to send its data. In
effect, the multiplexer,' which normally merges
to transfer information. Usually supervised by the
input from several sources into a single highmicroprocessor, the bus is, in computers such as
speed data stream, becomes a channel dedicated
the Apple Macintosh and IBM' and compatible
models, specialized for carrying different types of
to the needs of one device until the entire transmission has been sent. Burst mode is used both
information. One group of wires (actually, traces
in communications and between devices in a
on a printed circuit board), for example, carries
data; another carries the addresses (locations)
computer system. See also burst.
where specific information can be found; yet anburst rate See burst speed.
other carries control signals to ensure that the difburst speed Also called burst rate. The fastest
ferent parts of the system use their shared
speed at which a device can operate without inhighway without conflict. Buses are characterterruption. For example, various communications
ized by the number of bits they can transfer at a
hardware, such as some devices used on .data
single time. A computer with an 8-bit data bus,
networks, can send data in bursts, and the speed
for example, transfers 8 bits of data at a time, one
of such equipment is sometimes measured as the
with a 16-bit data bus transfers 16 bits at a time,
burst speed (the speed of data transfer while the
and so on. Because the bus is integral to internal
burst is being executed).
data transfer and yet computer users often need to
For a printer that prints one character at a.
add extra components to the system, most microtime, the burst speed is the number of characters
computer buses allow for expansion through one
per second that the printer can print on one line
or more expansion slots (connectors for add-on
without a carriage return or linefeed. Burst speed
circuit boards). Such boards, when they are addcontrasts with throughput, which is the number
ed, make an electrical connection to the bus and
. of characters per second when an entire page or
effectively become part of the system.
several pages. of text are being printed. Burst
bus extender A device that expands the capacity
speed measures the actual speed of printing,
of a bus. IBM PC/AT computers use a bu's exwithout consideration of the time taken to adtender to add onto the earlier PC bus and allow
vance paper or to move the print head back to the
the use of 16-bit expansion boards in addition to
left margin; throughput is a more practical mea8-bit boards. See also bus.
surement of printer speed in real-life situations.
Also, a special circuit board used by engineers
For virtually all character printers-including
to raise an add-in board above the computer's
daisy-wheel, thimble, ink-jet, thermal, and wirecabinet, making it easier to work on the circuit
pin dot-matrix printers-the speed claimed by
board.
the manufacturer is the burst speed. For bidirecbusiness graphics See presentation graphics,
tional daisy-wheel and thimble printers, throughput is usually only a little slower than burst
business information system Abbreviated BIS.

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