Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC v. Softlayer Technologies, Inc. et al

Filing 846

Additional Attachments to Main Document: #845 MOTION for Judgment as a Matter of Law Regarding Invalidity (Renewed) MOTION for Judgment as a Matter of Law Regarding Invalidity (Renewed) MOTION for Judgment as a Matter of Law Regarding Invalidity (Renewed) MOTION for Judgment as a Matter of Law Regarding Invalidity (Renewed) MOTION for Judgment as a Matter of Law Regarding Invalidity (Renewed).. (Attachments: #1 Exhibit 13 - U.S. Patent 5,893,120 - PX-1, #2 Exhibit 14 - 1996 NRL IPv6 code key.c - DX-36, #3 Exhibit 15 - NRL Source Code - key.h - DX-35, #4 Exhibit 16 - Information Disclosure Statement - 6/2010 - DX-147C, #5 Exhibit 17 - Information Disclosure Statement -12-2010 - DX-147E, #6 Exhibit 18 - Transaction History for Patent Application - DX-147G, #7 Exhibit 19 - USPTO Notice of Intent to Issue - DX-147F, #8 Exhibit 20 - Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate for the '120 Patent - DX-147H, #9 Exhibit 21 - US. Patent 5,287,499 - DX-66, #10 Exhibit 22 - Telcordia documents re: patent application - DX-56, #11 Exhibit 23 - Yahoo!'s 2004 10K Annual Statement - PX-248)(Doan, Jennifer)

Exhibit 19

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Commissioner for Patents
United States Patents and Trademark Office
P.O.Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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THIRD PARTY REQUESTER'S CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

Date:

l . .; t 4- \l

Lissi M. Marquis
NOV AK DRUCE & QUIGG LLP
1000 Louisiana Street, 53rd Floor
Houston, TX 77002

EX PARTE REEXAMINATION COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTAL FORM
REEXAMINATION CONTROL NO. : 90010856
PATENT NO. : 5893120
ART UNIT : 3992

Enclosed is a copy of the latest communication from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office in the above identified ex parte reexamination proceeding (37 CFR 1.550(f)):
Where this copy is supplied after the reply by requester, 37 CFR 1.535, or the time for filing a
reply has passed, no submission on behalf of the ex parte reexamination requester will be
acknowledged or considered (37 CFR 1.550(g)).

YAH0000525578

Control No.
90/010,856

5893120

Examiner

Art Unit

ALEXANDER J.
KOSOWSKI

Notice of Intent to Issue
Ex. Parte Reexamination Certificate

Patent Under Reexamination

3992

-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address --

1.

0

Prosecution on the merits is (or remains) closed in this ex parte reexamination proceeding. This proceeding is
subject to reopening at the initiative of the Office or upon petition. Cf 37 CFR 1. 313(a). A Certificate will be
issued in view of
(a) r8l Patent owner's communication(s) filed: 23 November 2010.
(b) 0 Patent owner's late response filed: _ _
.
(c) 0 Patent owner's failure to file an appropriate response to the Office action mailed: _ _
.
(d) 0 Patent owner's failure to timely file an Appeal Brief (37 CFR 41.31).
(e) 0 Other: _ _
Status of Ex Parte Reexamination:
(f) Change in the Specification: 0 Yes r8l No
(g) Change in the Drawing(s):
0 Yes r8l No
(h) Status of the Claim(s):
(1) Patent claim(s) confirmed: 1,2,5 and 6.
(2) Patent claim(s) amended (including dependent on amended claim(s)): 3,4,7 and 8
(3) Patent claim(s) canceled: _ _ .
(4) Newly presented claim(s) patentable: 9-12.
(5) Newly presented canceled claims: ___
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(6) Patent claim(s)

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(7) Patent claim(s) not subject to reexamination: _ _
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Note the attached statement of reasons for patentability and/or confirmation. Any comments considered
necessary by patent owner regarding reasons for patentability and/or confirmation must be submitted promptly
to avoid processing delays. Such submission(s) should be labeled: "Comments On Statement of Reasons for
Patentability and/or Confirmation."
.
Note attached NOTICE OF REFERENCES CITED (PTO-892).
Note attached LIST OF REFERENCES CITED (PTO/SB/08 or PTO/SB/08 substitute).
The drawing correction request filed on _ _ is:

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approved

0

disapproved.

Acknowledgment is made of the priority claim under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
a)O All b)O Some*
c)O None
of the certified copies have
been received.
not been received.
been filed in Application No. _ _ .
been filed in reexamination Control No.
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been received by the International Bureau in PCT Application No. _ _
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cc: Requester (if third party requester)

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DETAILED ACTION
1)

This Office action addresses claims 1-8 and new claims 9-12 of United States Patent

Number 5,893,120 (Nemes), for which it has been determined in the Order Granting Ex Parte

°

Reexamination (hereafter the "Order") mailed 3/2511 that a substantial new question of
patentability was raised in the Request for Ex Parte reexamination filed on 2/9/10 (hereafter the
"Request"). This is a response to the amendment filed 11123/1 o. Claims 1-12 are allowable
and/or confirmed below.

ST ATEMENT OF REASONS FOR PATENTABILITY AND/OR CONFIRMATION
2)

Claims 1-12 are allowable and/or confirmed.

Examiner notes that the amendment filed 11123110 has been considered in its entirety,
including the three separately submitted affidavits from Dr. Lawrence Pileggi.

In the amendment filed 1112311 0, patent owner (PO) has defined specific structure for the
means plus function system claims, and has amended all the method claims to impart similar
functionality. In view of these new definitions and amendments, examiner interprets how each
piece of prior art is overcome as follows:
The five issues from the

non~final

office action are rejections in view of Morrison,

Thatte, Morrison and Dirks, Morrison and Thatte and Dirks and Morris.
With regard to Morrison, PO has shown that there is no analysis of how Morrison
provides the required record search means or searching for a target record as recited.

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With regard to Thatte, PO and Dr. Lawrence Pileggi have shown that operations in Thatte
are suspended while a reconciliation process executes. Therefore, linked list access and removal
of expired records cannot occur at the same time, as recited.
With regard to Dirks and Morris, PO and Dr. Lawrence Pileggi have shown that
modifying the linear array (open) has table of Dirks to utilize a chained hash table such as Morris
would not be obvious at such a modification would destroy the predictability of the Dirks design.
With regard to Morrison and Dirks and Morrison and Thatte, the persuasive arguments
above with regard to Morrison render these rejections moot.

Therefore, the following is an examiner's statement of reasons for patentability andlor
confirmation of the claims found patentable in this reexamination proceeding:

Referring to claim 1, the claim is allowable over the prior art that was explained in the
request and determined to raise a substantial new question of patentability in the order granting
reexamination and over the prior art that was applied and discussed by the examiner in the
present reexamination 'proceeding because that prior art does not explicitly teach an information
storage and retrieval system comprising means utilizing record search means for accessing a
linked list and, at the same time, removing at least some of the expired ones of the records in the
linked list, in combination with the remaining elements or features of the claimed invention.
Referring to claim 3, the claim is allowable over the prior art that was explained in the
request and determined to raise a substantial new question of patentability in the order granting
reexamination and over the prior art that was applied and discussed by the examiner in the

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present reexamination proceeding because that prior art does not explicitly teach a method for
storing and retrieving information records using a linked list comprising accessing the linked list
of records to search for a target record and identifying at least some of the automatically expired
ones of the records while searching for the target record, in combination with the remaining
elements or features of the claimed invention.
Referring to claim 5, the claim is allowable over the prior art that was explained in the
request and determined to raise a substantial new question of patentability in the order granting
reexamination and over the prior art that was applied and discussed by the examiner in the
present reexamination proceeding because that prior art does not explicitly teach an information
storage and retrieval system comprising means utilizing record search means for inserting,
retrieving and deleting records from the system and, at the same time, removing at least some
expired ones of the records in the accessed linked list of records, in combination with the
remaining elements or features of the claimed invention.
Referring to claim 7, the claim is allowable over the prior art that was explained in the
request and determined to raise a substantial new question of patentability in the order granting
reexamination and over the prior art that was applied and discussed by the examiner in the
present reexamination proceeding because that prior art does not explicitly teach a method for
storing and retrieving information records using a hashing technique comprising accessing a
linked list of records having same hash address to search for a target record and identifying at
least some of the automatically expired ones of the records while searching for the target record,
in combination with the remaining elements or features of the claimed invention.
Claims 2, 4, 6 and 8-12 depend on allowable claims, and are therefore also allowable.

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Art Unit: 3992

Any comments considered necessary ,by PATENT 0 WNER regarding the above
statement must be submitted promptly to avoid processing delays. Such submission by the
patent owner should be labeled: "Comments on Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or
Confirmation" and will be placed in the reexamination file.

Conclusion
All correspondence relating to this ex parte reexamination proceeding should be directed
as follows:

. By U.S. Postal Service Mail to:
Mail Stop Ex Parte Reexam
ATTN: Central Reexamination Unit
Commissioner for Patents
P.O, Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
By FAX to:
[phone]
Central Reexamination Unit
By hand to:
Customer Service Window
Randolph Building
401 Dulany St.
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By EFS-Web:
Registered users of EFS- Web may alternatively submit such correspondence via the
electronic filing system EFS- Web, at

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https:llsportal.uspto.gov/authenticate/authenti cateuser localepf.html
EFS-Web offers the benefit of quick submission to the particular area of the Office that
needs to act on the correspondence. Also, EFS-Web submissions are "soft scanned" (i.e.,
electronically uploaded) directly into the official file for the reexamination proceeding, which
offers parties the opportunity to review the content of their submissions after the "soft scanning"
process is complete ..
~

Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the
Reexamination Legal Advisor or Examiner, or as to the status of this proceeding, should be
directed to the Central Reexamination Unit at telephone number [phone].

IAlexander J Kosowskil
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3992

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Appel, A. W., et al.; Hash-consing Garbage Collection; Pgs. 1-18; 02/1993

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Bays, C.; Some Techniques for Structurin9 Chained Hash Tables; The Computer Journal; Vol. 16.; No.2; Pgs. 126-131;
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Bastani, F. B., et al.; Concurrent Maintenance of Data Structures in a
Distributed Environment; The Computer Journal; Vol. 31; No.2; 1986;
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717 Pgs.
Kirsch, A., et al; Hash-Based Techniques for High-Speed Packet Processing; Pgs. 1-40

AAB

/

Seligmann, J, el al.; Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm; 1995; Pgs.

235~252

AAC
Bohannon, P., et al.; The Architecture of the Dali Main-Memory Storage Manager; 1997; Pgs. 115-151
AAD
Van Wyk, C. J., et al.; Algorithmica - The Complexity of Hashing with Lazy Deletion; 1986; Pgs. 17-29
AAE
Szymanski, T G., et al.; Special Feature: Goalie: A Space Efficient System for VLSI Artwork Analysis; 1985; Pgs. 64-72
AAF
van Rijsbergen, C. J.; Department of Computing Science - University of Glasgow; Information Retrieval; Pgs. 1-147
AAG
Jannick, J.; Sigmond Record, Vol. 24, No.1; Implementing Deletion in B+-Trees; 03/1995; Pgs. 33-38
AAH
Rusling; D. A.; The Linux Kernel; Version 0.8-3; Pgs. 1-176
AAI

AAJ

Chandranmenon, G. P.; et al.; IEEEIACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 4, No.2; Trading Packet Headers for Packet
Processing; Pgs. 141-152; 1996
Ramakrishna, M. V.; Hashing in Practice, Analysis of Hashing and Universal Hashing; 1988; Pgs. 191-199

AAK

AAL

Varghese, G., et al.; Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer
FaCility; 1987; Pgs. 25-38
Waldvogel, M., et al.; Scalable High Speed IP Routing Lookups; 1997; Pgs. 25-36

AAM

AAN

Fagin, R., et al.; ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 4, No.3; Extendible Hashing - A Fast Access Method for
Dynamic Files; 09/1979; Pgs. 315-344
Schmidt, J. P., et al.; On Aspects of Universality and Performance for Closed Hashing; 1989; Pgs. 355-366

AAO
Larson, P. A; Algorithms and Data Structures; Dynamic Hash Tables, Volume 31, No.4; 04/1988; Pgs. 446-457
AAP
Chiang, K. W, et al.; Time Efficient VLSI Artwork Analysis Algorithms in GOALlE2; 1988; Pgs. 471-476
AAQ
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Deutsch, L. P., et al.; Communications of the ACM, Vol. 19, No.9; An Efficient, Incremental, Automatic Garbage Collector;
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Yao, A.; Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 28, No.3; Should Tables be Sorted?; 07/1981; Pgs. 615628

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Karger, D., et al; Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the
World Wide Web; 1997; Pgs. 654-663
Celis, P., et al; Information Sciences 62, The Analysis of Hashing with lazy Deletions; 1992; Pgs. 13-26

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Albers. S., et al.; Self-Organizing Data Structures; Pgs. 1·39
AAG
Seltzer, M.; A New Hashing Package for UNIX; Winter '91; Pgs. 173-184
AAH
Tamassia. R.; ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 28, No.1; Data Structures; 03/1996; Pgs. 23-26
AAI

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Morrison, J. A" et al; SIAM J. Comp., Vol. 16, NO.6 - A Queuing AnalysiS of Hashing with lazy Deletion; 12/1987; Pgs.
1155-1164
Dietzfelbinger, M., et aI., Dynamic Perfect Hashing: Upper and lower Bounds, Revised Version; 01107/1990; Pgs. 1-33

AAK

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Kenyon-Mathieu, C.M" et al.; General Methods for the Analysis of the Maximum Size of Dynamic Data Structures; Pgs. 473487

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Mathieu, C. M., et al.; Rapports de Recherche N"851 , Maximum Queue Size and Hashing with lazy Deletion; 06/1988;
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Aldous, D., et al.; SIAM J. Comp., Vol. 21, No.4, Maximum Size of a Dynamic Data Structure: Hashing with lazy Deletion
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AAB
Costello, A. M., et al.; Redesigning the BSD Callout and TimerFacilities; 11102/1995; 12 Pgs.
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Printout - Wavelan Pcmcia driver, Jean II-HPLB '96; Pgs. 1-78
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Lissi M. Marquis, Houston, TX
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TITLE

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL USING A HASHING
TECHNIQUE WITH EXTERNAL CHAINING AND ON-THE-FLY REMOVAL OF EXPIRED DATA

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