CYBER.MAN Busi:
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`Plan
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`Appendix 10 : Sustainable Competitive Advantage:
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`The CYBERMAN Model lends itself to a zillion possibilities.
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`It revolutionizes how hardware is built in the future.
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`All types of network connectivity, from LANs, to public switched
`telephone networks, to Banking private enterprise - wide networks, to
`wireless, to CATV, send a msg to trigger a switch to turn on the rice
`cooker.
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`Service is:
`measurable,
`accountable,
`configurable,
`thresholds, triggers, events and actions are pre - defined,
`truly interactive,
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`Everyone has con tro!.
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`Truly peer - to - peer,
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`Truly capture and control end - user delivery mechanism.
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`Network link is provided by CYBERMAN at each vertex of triangle.
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`User interacts with his own history, so gives control of his own
`environment/ domain.
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`Markets served is an endless continuum of opportunities:
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`Phase 1: Service providers:
`Hospitals
`Banks
`POS system vendors
`Internet Access Providers
`Telcos
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`Phase 2: Vendors
`Phase 3: Consumers
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`CYBERMAN is the networking of information interactively accessed by a
`"chain of interconnected persons and operations". Service provider enables
`consumer to manage personal assets. CYBERMAN takes us into the realm
`of consumer automation and consumer information systems.
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`CYBERMAN captures and controls delivery mechanism to novice user.
`It creates an open information pipe.
`Payment access into Electronic Commerce delivery channels.
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`DIan
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`Interactive viewing,
`Meta - information, consisting of nested objects, at Network Entry Points
`(NEPs),
`Benefits:
`Time Management
`Convenience
`Facilitates day - to - day tasks,
`Open - ended upgrade path.
`Cost - effective, self - contained,
`Automated ordering
`Expedite payment processing
`Alarm/ threshold management
`Intra/inter - enterprise communication links all of the user's information
`elements.
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`Features:
`Tracks all users:
`Home Banker
`POS Merchant
`Acquirer
`Issuer
`Customer Acct
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`Fault, Alarm Management:
`Monitors all transactions
`Critical condition events
`Threshold, pre - defined actions
`Work order
`Alerts
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`Administration, Configuration Management:
`Disaster Recovery
`Auto Back - up
`Auto discovery - Real- time inventory of networked information assets
`Bird's Eye View
`Multi - Media Call Center
`Personal Finance Viewer
`Bank helps consumer to manage personal finances
`Monthly transaction history
`View branch
`Attempts to process loans, online deposits/withdrawals by geographic
`area.
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`Building Block Model
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`Virtual Branch View
`Automatically generated for Brapch manager
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`Defined org(l11.ization of networked information objects
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`NOID - each object is networked
`Organize network objects in logical categories
`Pie, bar graphs of network variable values
`Discovery, mapping of information assets
`Sorting of existing folders
`Real- time statistics - easily observe subsystem trends, display of attribute
`info updated in real- time.
`Pager, e-mail, auto transfer
`Registers all users
`Power lies in ability to monitor values of networked information objects.
`Electronic Information Switch
`Monitors and graphs MIB networked object variables in real - time
`Frees user to manage his finances and make financial decisions, not
`monitor
`Historical, statistical analysis
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`Manager - to - Manager MIS: M2M MIS
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`Configure entities as both Managers and Agents.
`Entity can act as Manager, Agent or Proxy Agent.
`Alarms, events, notifications to be reported to NMS
`Inform - request PDU performs notifications
`Alarm Table, Event Table, Notification Table
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`Three types of access to Info Mgmt Information:
`Request, response: Mgr - to - Agent, and Mgr - to - Mgr
`Unsolicited msg confirmed: Agent - to - Mgr
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`Enhanced PDUs (new PDUs) and error codes and exception responses.
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`Bank opens CICS port for remote PC banking.
`
`portfolio mgmt, mutual funds, stock
`on -line apps - app with time bomb, bill for time, or use
`Midnite every nite, monthly, prepare statements, to cash register
`cyber messenger
`access to PC to do taxes
`full svc: order checks, payroll svc for small business
`
`Financial Information Manager.
`Enables transactions and manages outcome of transaction.
`Electronic Cash Manager
`E - Accountant
`E - Fund Manager
`E - Personal bank Manager
`Reckoning, credit/ debit Manager
`
`Who needs CYBERMAN?
`Retail domains
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`CYBERMAN Busi;
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`Plan
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`Banks
`Merchants
`App vendors
`
`How different and unique?
`Mgmt layer
`OAM&P
`Transact between multiple Web sites
`Fully integrated end - to - end solution.
`
`Team up with major Bank, IBM
`
`How to Keep Market?
`Offer new apps, new svcs in banking
`Enter medical, and other vertical markets
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`Customer Support Plan:
`
`.. Provide service agreements nation - wide, a complete R&D staff, telephone
`customer support and maintenance
`.. A project manager is assigned exclusively to the client during installation .
`.. On - site training and on - going support to the client, and a high level of
`involvement in the implementation to understand the challenges faced by the
`client first - hand, and assist with the migration
`.. CYBERMAN Users' Group
`.. Pre - Installation planning is conducted between Bank and Pi - Net staff
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`Attorney Docket No.: 002435.P001
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`PATENT
`
`POWER OF ATTORNEY
`
`Title: Configurable Network Switching and Object Routing Apparatus and Method
`Inventor(s): Lakshmi Arunachalam
`
`We hereby appoint Aloysius T. C. AuYeung, Reg. No. 35,432; William Thomas
`Babbitt, Reg. No. P39,591; Bradley J. Bereznak, Reg. No. 33,474; Michael A.
`Bernadicou, Reg. No. 35,934; Roger W. Blakely, Jr., Reg. No. 25,831; Thomas M.
`Coester, Reg. No. P39,637; William Donald Davis, Reg. No. 38,428; Daniel M. De Vas,
`Reg. 37,813; Karen L. Feisthamel, Reg. No. P40,264; Scot A. Griffin, Reg. No. 38,167;
`David R. Halvorson, Reg. No. 33,395; Brian Don Hickman, Reg. No. 35,894; Eric Ho,
`Reg. No. P39,711; George W Hoover II, Reg. No. 32,992; Eric S. Hyman, Reg. No.
`30,139; Jeff D. Jacobs, Reg. No. P40,029; Dag H. Johansen, Reg No. 36,172; Stephen
`L. King, Reg. No. 19,180; Daniel C. Mallery; Reg. 33,532; Michael J. Mallie, Reg. No.
`36,591; Kimberley G. Nobles, Reg. No. 38,255; Ronald W. Reagin, Reg. No. 20,340;
`James H. Salter, Reg. No. 35,668; William W. Schaal, Reg. No. P39,018;
`James C. Scheller, Reg. No. 31,195; Edward W. Scott, IV, Reg. No. 36,000; Maria
`McCormack Sobrino, Reg. No. 31,639; Stanley W. Sokoloff, Reg. No. 25,128; Allan T.
`Sponseller, Reg. No. 38,318; Steven R. Sponseller, Reg. No. 39,384; David R. Stevens,
`Reg. No. 38,626; Edwin H. Taylor, Reg. No. 25,129; Lester J. Vincent, Reg. No.
`31,460; John Patrick Ward, Reg. No. P40,216; Ben J. Yorks, Reg. No. 33,609; and
`Norman Zafman, Reg. No. 26,250; my attorneys; and Roland B. Cortes, Reg. No.
`39,152; Gary B. Goates, Reg. No. 35,159; Thomas X. Li, Reg. No. 37,079; and Edwin
`A. Sloane, Reg. No. 34,728; my patent agents; of BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR &
`ZAFMAN, with offices located at 12400 Wilshire Boulevard, 7th Floor, Los Angeles,
`California 90025, telephone (310) 207-3800, with full power of substitution and
`revocation, to prosecute this application and to transact all business in the Patent and
`Trademark Office connected herewith.
`Please direct all communications to:
`
`James H. Salter
`BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN
`12400 Wilshire Boulevard, Seventh Floor
`Los Angeles, California 90025
`Telephone: (408) 720-8598.
`
`Date:. ___________ .19_
`
`Name: Lakshmi Arunachalam
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`Date:. _____ _ _ _ ___ .19_
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`Dale: __ __ ___ __ __ .19_
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`Date: _ _ _ _ ____ ___ .19 __
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`Date:. ___________ .19_
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`Name:
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`Name:
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`Name:
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`Name:
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`Atturney's
`Applicant o'r Patef'lE:@,:.1~kshm! A,r,.!!JnJfa"'cjjjha"'la"'m-'-'-_________ _
`Docket No. 002435.P001
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`,Fol1PI-NET INTERNATIONAL; IN(;·
`t·, "
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`VERIFIED STATEMENT (DECLARATION) CLAIMING SMALL ENTITY STATUS
`37 CFR '1.9 (f) and 1.27(b) - INDEPENDENT INVENTOR
`
`...
`A l the below named inventor, I hereby declare that I qualify as an independent inventor as defined in
`.". r'CFR 1.9(c) for purposes 01 paying reduced fees under section 41 (a) and (b) of Title 35, United
`Silates Code, to the Patent ard Trademark Office with regard to the invention entitled:
`
`.r~~~IGURABLE NETWORK SWITCHING AND OBJECT ROUTING APPARATUS AND METHOD
`
`II'
`
`,\"!'Jf ~scribed in
`[X 1 the specification filed herewith.
`,
`.
`OjJplication serial no. _________ " filed ________________ _
`,mm ____________________ _
`1 patent no.
`
`I n,ave not assigned, granted, conveyed or licensed and am under no obligation
`.• mder contract or law to assign, grant, conveyor license, any rights in the invention
`to any person who could not be classified as an independent inventor under 37
`CFR 1.9(c) if that person had made the invention, or to any concern which would
`not qualify as a small business concern under 37 CFR 1.9(d) or a nonprofit
`organization under 37 CFR 1.9(e).
`
`Each person, concern or organization to which I have assigned, granted, conveyed, or licensed or am
`under an obligation under contract or law to assign, grant, conveyor license any rights in the invention
`is listed below:
`
`No such person, concern, or organization.
`[ X 1 Persons, concernS, or organizations listed below!
`
`-NOTE: Separate verilied statements are required from each named person, concern or
`organization having rights to the invention averring to their status as small entities.
`(37 CFR 1.27)
`
`NAME: PI-NET INTERNATIONAL, INC,
`ADDRESS: 222 Stanford Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025
`[ 1 Individual
`[X 1 Small Business Concern
`
`[ 1 Non-Profit Organization
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`[ 1 Individual
`[ 1 Small Business Concern
`[ 1 Non-Profit Organization
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`I acknowledge the duty to file, in this application or patent, notification of any change in status resulting
`in loss of entitlement to small entity status prior to paying, or at the time of paying, the earliest of the
`issue fee or any maintenance fee due after the date on which status as a small entity is no longer
`appropriate. (37 CFR 1.28(b))
`
`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all statements
`made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made
`with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or
`imprisonment, or both. under §1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, and that such willful false
`statements may jeopardize the validity of the application, any patent issuing thereon, or any patent to
`which this verified statement is directed.
`
`LAKSHMIARUNACH~
`NAME OF INVENTOR
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`NAME OF INVENTOR
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`NAME OF INVENTOR
`
`Signature 01 Inventor
`
`Signature of Inventor
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`Signature of Inventor
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`DATE
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`DATE
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`DATE
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`LJV Icak 10/04/94
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`LAKSHMI ARUNACHALAM, MENLO PARK, CA.
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`002435.P001
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`JAMES H SALTER
`BLAKEY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & ZAFMAN
`12400 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD 7TH FLOOR
`LOS ANGELES CA 90025-1026
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`Lakshmi Arunachalam
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`Serial No.: 601006,634
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`Filed: November 13, 1996
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`For: Configurable Network Switching and
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`COMMISSIONER OF
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`TRANSMITTAL
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`Sir:
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`Please find enclosed the following documents in relation to the above-referenced
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`Verified Statement under 37 C.F.R. § 1.9(f) and § 1.27(b). - Independent
`Inventor.
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`Verified Statement under 37 C.F.R. § 1.9(f) and § 1.27(c). - Small Business
`Concern.
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`BLAKELY, SO]<,gl::;017, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN
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`mail with sufficient postage in an envelope addressed to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks,
`Washington, D.C. 20231
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`A plican! or Patentee: Laksfrmi Arunachalam
`.".,.,-:::<~... Patent No.: "'60"'-/006""''''.6''''34<:!-__ ____ ______ _
`•• .::n ....... '""'''': November 13. 1995
`
`Attorney's
`Docket No. 02435.P001
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`VERIFIED STATEMENT (DECLARATION) CLAIMING SMALL ENTITY STATUS
`37 CFR 1.9 (f) and 1.27(b) - INDEPENDENT INVENTOR
`
`~~~rhe below named inventor, I hereby declare that I qualify as an independent inventor as defined in
`37 CFR 1.9(c) for purposes of paying reduced fees under section 41 (a) and (b) of Title 35, United
`States Code, to the Patent and Trademark Office with regard to the invention entitled:
`
`Configurable Network Switching and Object Routing Apparatus and Method
`
`described in
`[ 1
`[XX]
`[1
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`the specification filed herewith.
`
`application serial no. 60/006.634, filed: November 13, 1995
`patent no.
`,issued _ ___ __ __ __ _
`
`have not assigned, granted, conveyed or licensed and am under no obligation
`under contract or law to assign, grant, conveyor license, any rights in the invention
`to any person who could not be classified as an independent inventor under 37
`CFR 1.9(c) if that person had made the invention, or to any concern which would
`not qualify as a small business concern under 37 CFR 1.9(d) or a nonprofit
`organization under 37 CFR 1.9(e).
`
`Each person, concern or organization to which I have assigned, granted, conveyed, or licensed or am
`under an obligation under contract or law to assign, grant, conveyor license any rights in the invention
`is listed below:
`
`No such person, concern, or organization.
`
`[XX] Persons, concerns, or organizations listed below.*
`
`'NOTE: Separate verified statements are required from each named person, concern or
`organization having rights to the invention averring to their status as small entities.
`(37 CFR 1.27)
`
`NAME: PI-NET INTERNATIONAL, INC.
`ADDRESS: 222 Stanford Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025
`[)Individual
`[XX] Small Business Concern
`
`1 Non-Profit Organization
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`~--------------------------------------------------
`t>J::CRESS:
`] Individual
`] Small Business Concern
`] Non-Profit Organization
`
`I acknowledge the duty to file, in this application or patent, notification of any change in status resulting
`in loss of entitlement to small entity status prior to paying, or at the time of paying, the earliest of the
`issue fee or any maintenance fee due after the date on which status as a small entity is no longer
`appropriate. (37 CFR 1.28(b))
`
`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all statements
`made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made
`with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or
`imprisonment, or both, under §1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, and that such willful false
`statements may jeopardize the validity of the application, any patent issuing thereon, or any patent to
`which this verified statement is directed.
`
`LAKSHMIARUNACHALAM
`NAME OF INVENTOR
`NAME OF INVENTOR
`~~~
`; ')! Inventor
`Signature of Inventor
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`NAME OF INVENTOR
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`Signature of Inventor
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`fV\ OV\.ct,- Ip ) CO) b
`DATE
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`DATE
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`DATE
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`Lakshmi Arunachalam
`Applicant or Patentee:
`Attorney's
`__ "",",ria. I or Patent No.:
`--,60>M.!{006~"",6",,34~ ________________ _
`Docket No.
`02435.P001
`r Issued:
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`., VERIFIED STATEMENT (DECLARATION) CLAIMING SMALL ENTITY STATUS
`Ai'
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`37 CFR 1.9 (t) and 1.27(c) - - SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN
`?'
`. I her~V.d~c1are that I am:
`" J».IIn("1f.~\'t~ 1 the owner of the small business concern identified below:
`. " ... "... [ __ 1 an official of the small business concern empowered to act on behalf of the
`concern identified below:
`
`NAME OF CCNCERN: PI-NET INTERNATIONAL INC
`ADDRESS OF CONCERN:
`222 STANDaRD AVENUE, MENLO PARK, CA 94025
`
`I hereby declare that the above identified smal1 business concern qualifies as a small business concern
`as defined in 13 CFR 121.3-18, and reproduced in 37 CFR 1.9(d), for purposes of paying reduced
`fees under Section 41 (a) and (b) of Title 35, United States Code, in that the number of employees of
`the concern, including those of its affiliates, does not exceed 500 persons. For purposes of this
`statement, (1) the number of employees of the business concern is the average over the previous
`fiscal year of the concern of the persons employed on a full-time, part-time or temporary basis during
`each of the pay periods of the fiscal year, and (2) concerns are affiliates of each other when either,
`directly or indirectly, one concern controls or has the power to control the other, or a third party or
`parties controls or has the power \0 control both.
`
`I hereby certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief rights under contract or law have been
`conveyed to and remain with the small business concern identified above with regard to the invention
`entitled
`Configurable Network Switching and Object Routing Apparatus and Method
`by inventor(s) Lakshmi Arunachalam
`described in
`[ __ 1 the specification being filed herewith
`[ _X __ 1 application serial no. 60/006,634
`, filed November 13, 1995
`[ __ 1 patent no.
`,issuOO ____________ _
`and I have reviewed the document that evidences the conveyance of those rights.
`That document
`[ _X __ 1 is being filed herewith.
`[ __ 1 was recorded in the Patent and Trademark Office on _________________ ,19 __
`at reel
`andfrarm. ___________ _
`
`If the rights held by the above-identified small business concern are not exclusive, each individual,
`concern or organization having rights to the invention is listed below and no rights to the
`invention are held by any person, other than the inventor, who could not qualify as
`a small business concern under 37 CFR 1,9(d) or by any concern which would not
`qualify as a small business concern under 347 CFR 1,9(d) or a non-profit
`organization under 37 CFR 1_9(e), NOTE: Separate verified statements are required from
`each named person, concern or organization having rights to the invention averring to their status as
`small entities. (37 CFR 1.27)
`~E~ ______________________________________ . __________ _
`~----------------~~--~---------~--~~------------
`[ ___ 1 Individual
`[ ___ 1 Small Business Concern
`[ ___ 1 Non-Profit Organization
`~E~ ______________________________________________________ __
`~~~~--~--~~~~--~----------~~~~~------------
`[ ___ 1 Individual
`[ ___ 1 Small Business Concern
`[ ___ 1 Non-Profit Organization
`
`I acknowledge the duty to file, in this application or patent, notification of any change in status resulting
`in loss of entitlement to small entity status prior to paying, or at the time of paying, the earliest of the
`issue fee or any maintenance fee due after the date on which status as a small entity is no longer
`appropriate. (37 CFR 1,28(b))
`
`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all statements
`made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made
`with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or
`imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, and that such willful
`false statements may jeopardize the validity of the application, any patent issuing thereon, or any
`patent to which this verified statement is directed.
`Lc,,- k sk WI. 1 A 'nUI (..\.cl,cJ C",l'IIl
`NAMEOFPERro'JS\I2l'JIr'.n:
`Tm£OF PERffiNOTI-IERTHANOJIINER
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