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`Inventors: La kshmi Arunachalam
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`Inventor's Addresses: _Mie n l O P a r k , CA
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`TMa "Method and Apparatus for Enabling Real—Time Transactions on a
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`(x) Signature by Attorney constituting power of attorney
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`(x) Specification, Claims, and Abstract: No. of Sheets 31
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`In re application of:
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`Inventor: Lakshmi Arunachalam
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`Serial No.:
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`Filing Date: Oct. 29, 2007
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`Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS
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`FOR ENABLING REAL-TIME
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`Kindly accept this Suggested Restriction Requirement under 37 C.F.R.
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`The applicant respectfully suggests the following restriction:
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`Claim Group I - Claims 1- 17 drawn to a method for delivering complete
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`wireless transactional services over the World Wide Web.
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`Claim Group II - Claims 18-24 drawn to an employee-accessible web
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`service network portal .
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`Claim Group III — Claims 25-32 drawn to an exchange component of a
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`web-based transactional service.
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`Claim Group IV — Claims 33-39 drawn to a multi-media network object
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`routing service .
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`Claim Group V — Claims 40-46 drawn to a web service transaction
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`system for allowing N-Way transactions.
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`Claim Group VI — Claims 47-52 drawn to a cooperative multiple merchant
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`web service system.
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`Claim Group VII — Claims 53-59 drawn to a method for providing an
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`enhanced value chain between web merchants.
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`Claim Group VIII — Claims 60-70 drawn to a value added network switch.
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`Claim Group IX — Claims 72-85 drawn to a method for performing a
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`transaction over a digital network.
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`Claim Group X — Claims 86-92 drawn to a method for managing services
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`on a network.
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`Claim Group XI — Claims 93-104 drawn to a method for configuring the
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`context of a service on the World Wide Web.
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`Claim Group XII —- Claims 105-110
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`drawn to distributed online service
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`information bases.
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`Respectfully Submitted
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`Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS
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`IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER APPLICATIONS
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`This is an identification of other applications with an inventor in common
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`IDENTIFICATION
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`This application has a common inventor Lakshmi Arunachalam and a
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`common priority date of Nov. 13, 1995 with the following applications:
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`08/700,726 now patent no. 5,778,178
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`08/879,958 now patent no. 5,987,500
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`09/296,207 now patent no. 6,212,556
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`09/792,323 co-pending (Notice of allowance issued)
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`09/863,704 co-pending
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`Title: METHOD AND APPARAUTS
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`FOR ENABLING REAL TIME
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`Title: METHOD AND APPARAUTUS
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`Title: METHOD AND APPARAUTUS
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`Microsoft Corporation has recently filed a complaint CV 08 5149 in the United
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`States Federal Court for the Northern District of California against the owner of several
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`of the parent patents (applications) in this case. Microsoft has asked for a declaratory
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`judgment of unenforceability based on alleged ineguitable conduct against the present
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`inventor in procuring the following parent patents: 5,778,178 (08/700,726), 6,212,556
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`(09/296,207) and 7,340,506 (09/792,323). All of these patents are priority applications
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`to the present case. This complaint has already been supplied in an Information
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`Disclosure Statement in this case and is currently in the record.
`Microsoft alleges that the inventor Ms. Lakshmi Arunachalam failed to disclose I
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`certain documents during the course of prosecution of these three patents.
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`particular, Microsoft alleges that the inventor did not disclose the following three
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`documents: 1) SMI RFC-1155, “Structure and Identification of Management Information
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`for TCP/IP Based Internets”, published May 1990, 2) MIB Il RFC-1213 “Structure and
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`Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP Based Internets”, published March
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`1991, and 3) SNMP RFC-1157, “A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)”,
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`published May 1990. All three of these documents have already been supplied to the
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`‘ Patent Office in an Information Disclosure in the present case. However, the applicant
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`did not know of the existence of these documents during initial prosecution.
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`Microsoft also alleges that the inventor not only knew of these documents, but
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`copied portions of them into the specification of these patents.
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`Microsoft, in their complaint, presented the following table:
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`Information Base or MIB. Objects in the
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`Notation One (ASN.1) [8] defined in the
`smtax and an encoding. The name is an
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`[Internet standard] SMI.
`administratively assigned object 11)
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`specifling an object 313;. The object typg
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`together with the object instance serves to
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`uniguelx identifl a specific instantiation of
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`the object. .. The syntax of an object up;
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`defines the abstract data structure
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`In particular, each object has a name, a
`syntax. and an encoding. The name is an
`object identifier, an administratively assimd
`name, which specifies an object gme. The
`chest t -e to' ether with an ob'ect instance
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`serves to uniguelv identifx a specific
`instantiation of the obiect. For human
`convenientx, we often use a textual string,
`termed the OBJECT DESCRIPTOR, to also
`refer to the object type.
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`The syntax of an object Egg defines the
`abstract data stmcture corresponding to that
`object type. The ASN.1 language is used for
`this purpose. However. the SM [12]
`purposely restricts the ASN.1 constructs
`which may be used. These restrictions are
`explicitly made for simplicity.
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`The encoding of an object up; is simply
`how that object type is represented using the
`object type's syntax. Implicitlg tied to the
`notion of an object tyge's syntax and
`encoding is how the object tvpe is
`represented when being transmitted on the
`network. The SMI specifies the use of the
`basic encoding rules of ASN.1 [9], subject to
`the additional requirements imposed by the
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`begg’ transmitted over the network.
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`12. A method for enabling object routing
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`enabling object routing comprising the
`steps of:
`creating a. virtual information store
`containing information entries and
`attributes;
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`15. The method claim 12 wherein said step
`of associating each of said information
`entries and said attributes with said object
`identity further includes the step of storing
`a name, a syntax and an encoding for each
`of said object identities.
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`16. The method in claim 15 wherein 53.131
`name of said object identitv specifies an
`object Me.
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`The inventor admits that these documents were not disclosed to the Patent
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`Office in the previous cases since she did not know of them, and that there is language
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`in her specification that is similar to that contained in these documents. The inventor is
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`not sure where the similar language appearing in her specification came from.
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`Microsoft also alleges that the inventor failed to notify the Patent Office about her
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`PCT application No. PCT/US96/18165 published in 1997 as WO 97/18515 in the case
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`of patent number 6,212,556 (09/296,556) filed April 21, 1999. Since the ‘556 patent
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`application was a continuation-in-part, it contained new matter, and claims to new
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`The inventor admits that her PCT application was published in 1997, more than
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`one year before the filing date of the application for the ‘556 patent, and that the
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`application for the ‘556 patent was a ClP and contained new matter. The inventordid
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`not disclose the PCT application to the examiner. However, as Microsoft states in their
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`complaint, the PCT application was almost identical to the original