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APPENDIX B Joint Claim Construction Worksheet e.Digital v. Arcsoft, -31- U.S. Patent No. 8,311,523 (“the ’523 Patent”) ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction Claim 1 A server in communication with a communication device via a network and which automatically provides differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy, the server comprising: a memory which stores social templates, each social template corresponding to a unique social signature comprising a first sensor value range and a second sensor value range other than the first sensor value range and each social template being “provide/provides/ providing differing levels of information”: plain and ordinary meaning “social template”: “parameters and/or information for analysis of social signatures” “unique social signature”: “social signature associated with a specific social template at the time of processing” “sensor value range”: plain and ordinary meaning “provide/provides/ providing differing levels of information”: “send/ sends/sending information in varying levels of granularity” “social template”: “data structure storing a social signature and a social hierarchy” “unique social signature”: “combination of sensor data indicative of a type of activity and that is unique” “sensor value range”: “range of measurements between-32- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; a processor which receives from the communication device sensor data received from a sensor set of the communication device which detects sensor data including a first detected sensor value comprising optical information detected by an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of an environment of the communication device and a second detected “social hierarchy”: “an arrangement of persons, things, information and/or operations in a series of levels” “information”: plain and ordinary meaning “first detected sensor value”: plain and ordinary meaning two values” “social hierarchy”: “ordered ranking of social groups defined within each social template” “information”: “a report about a single event that results from comparison of sensor data with social templates” “first detected sensor value”: “one of multiple possible light measurements between a high and low value used to develop a social signature.”-33- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction sensor value comprising acoustic information detected by an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device, creates a detected social signature from the received sensor data, determines which of the social signatures of the social templates has a greatest correspondence with the created social signature through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and the first and second sensor value ranges of each stored social template, retrieves from the memory the determined one social template “second detected sensor value”: plain and ordinary meaning “social signature”: “raw or processed data and/or other information based on sensors” “second detected sensor value”: “one of multiple possible acoustic measurements between a high and low value used to develop a social signature.” “social signature”: “combination of sensor data indicative of a type of activity” -34- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction having the greatest correspondence and having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range, and provides to at least one member of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template; and a transceiver which receives the sensor data from the sensor set in the communication device, and provides under the control of the processor to at least one of the members of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much -35- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction information as allowed based on the retrieved social template. Claim 3 The server of claim 1, wherein: the levels of the social hierarchy of the retrieved social template include: a first social hierarchy level which provides one level of information as selected in the retrieved social template, a second social hierarchy level which provides another level of information as selected in the retrieved social -36- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction template, and a third social hierarchy level which provides a further level of information as selected in the retrieved social template; and the processor detects to which of the first social hierarchy level, the second social hierarchy level, and the third social hierarchy level each member belongs, and provides only as much information as allowed by the detected social hierarchy level. Claim 8 The server of claim 1, wherein, for at least one of the social templates, there is a single level of social -37- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction hierarchy for a social networking service, and the processor automatically provides an update to the social networking service. Claim 10 The server of claim 1, wherein, at least one of the social templates corresponds to an emergency, and when the processor detects an emergency situation from the detected social signature, the processor automatically provides information related to the emergency to predetermined emergency services, friends and/or family members according to the detected emergency situation. “provided…/provides /providing an update”: plain and ordinary meaning “provided…/provides /providing an update”: “sent/ sends/sending information indicating a user’s status” -38- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction Claim 19 A method of automatically providing differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy within a server, the method comprising: constructing a social signature within the server using sensor data sensed by a sensor set in a communication device external to the server, the sensor data including a first detected sensor value comprising optical information from an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of an environment of the communication device and a second detected -39- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction sensor value comprising acoustic information from an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device; determining within the server which one of a plurality of social templates has a social signature with a greatest correspondence with the constructed social signature through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and first and second sensor value ranges of each social template, each social template corresponding to a unique social signature comprising -40- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction corresponding first and second sensor value ranges and each social template being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; and retrieving from a memory of the server the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence and having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range, wherein only as much information as -41- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction allowed based on the retrieved social template will be provided to at least one member of the predetermined social hierarchy. Claim 23 The method of claim 19, wherein the information to be provided comprises an update to a social networking service as allowed based on the retrieved social template. Claim 26 The method of claim 19, further comprising detecting an emergency from the constructed social signature wherein the -42- ’523 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction information to be provided comprises information related to the emergency which is to be selectively provided to predetermined emergency services, friends and/or family members according to the detected emergency situation using one of the social templates. -43- U.S. Patent No. 8,311,524 (“the ’524 Patent”) ’524 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction Claim 1 A method of automatically providing differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy, the method comprising: receiving sensor data transmitted from a sensor set producing the sensor data, the sensor data including a first detected sensor value comprising optical information from an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of an environment of the communication device and a second detected sensor value “provide/provides/ providing differing levels of information”: plain and ordinary meaning “first detected sensor value”: plain and ordinary meaning “provide/provides/ providing differing levels of information”: “send/ sends/sending information in varying levels of granularity” “first detected sensor value”: “one of multiple possible light measurements between a high and low value used to develop a social signature.” -44- ’524 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction comprising acoustic information from an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device; constructing a social signature using the received sensor data; determining which one of a plurality of stored social templates has a social signature with a greatest correspondence with the constructed social signature through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and first and second sensor value ranges of each social template, each stored social template corresponding to a unique social “second detected sensor value”: plain and ordinary meaning “social signature”: “raw or processed data and/or other information based on sensors” “social template”: “parameters and/or information for analysis of social signatures” “second detected sensor value”: “one of multiple possible acoustic measurements between a high and low value used to develop a social signature.” “social signature”: “combination of sensor data indicative of a type of activity” “social template”: “data structure storing a social signature and a social hierarchy”-45- ’524 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction signature comprising corresponding first and second sensor value ranges and each social template being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; and retrieving from a memory the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence and having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range, wherein at least “sensor value range”: plain and ordinary meaning “unique social signature”: “social signature associated with a specific social template at the time of processing” “social hierarchy”: “an arrangement of persons, things, information and/or operations in a series of levels” “information”: plain and ordinary meaning “sensor value range”: “range of measurements between two values” “unique social signature”: “combination of sensor data indicative of a type of activity and that is unique” “social hierarchy”: “ordered ranking of social groups defined within each social template” “information”: “a report about a single event that results from comparison of sensor-46- ’524 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction one member of the predetermined social hierarchy is provided only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template. Claim 7 The method of claim 1, wherein the information provided by the retrieved social template is an update to a social networking service as allowed based on the retrieved social template. data with social templates” -47- U.S. Patent No. 8,315,619 (“the ’619 Patent”) ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction Claim 1 A communication system in communication with a communication device via a network and which automatically provides differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy, the communication system comprising: a memory which stores social templates, each social template corresponding to a unique social signature comprising a first sensor value range and a second sensor value range other than the first sensor value range and each social “provide/provides/ providing differing levels of information”: plain and ordinary meaning “social template”: “parameters and/or information for analysis of social signatures” “unique social signature”: “social signature associated with a specific social template at the time of processing” “provide/provides/ providing differing levels of information”: “send/ sends/sending information in varying levels of granularity” “social template”: “data structure storing a social signature and a social hierarchy” “unique social signature”: “combination of sensor data indicative of a type of activity and that is unique”-48- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction template being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; and a server comprising a processor which receives from the communication device sensor data received from a sensor set of the communication device which detects sensor data including a first detected sensor value from a first sensor and a second detected sensor value from a second sensor related to an environment of the communication device, “sensor value range”: plain and ordinary meaning “social hierarchy”: “an arrangement of persons, things, information and/or operations in a series of levels” “information”: plain and ordinary meaning “first detected sensor value”: plain and ordinary meaning “sensor value range”: “range of measurements between two values” “social hierarchy”: “ordered ranking of social groups defined within each social template” “information”: “a report about a single event that results from comparison of sensor data with social templates” “first detected sensor value”: “one of multiple possible light measurements between a high and low value used to develop a social signature.”-49- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction creates a detected social signature from the received sensor data, determines which of the social signatures of the social templates has a greatest correspondence with the created social signature through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and the first and second sensor value ranges of each stored social template, retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence, and provides to at least one member of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved “second detected sensor value”: plain and ordinary meaning “social signature”: “raw or processed data and/or other information based on sensors” “second detected sensor value”: “one of multiple possible acoustic measurements between a high and low value used to develop a social signature.” “social signature”: “combination of sensor data indicative of a type of activity” -50- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction social template; and a transceiver which receives the sensor data from the sensor set in the communication device, and provides under the control of the processor to at least one of the member of the predetermined social hierarchy only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template, wherein: the first detected sensor value of the sensor data comprises optical information from an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of the environment of the communication device, and the second detected sensor value-51- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction of the sensor data comprises acoustic information from an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device, and the processor retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range, and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range. Claim 3 The communication system of claim 1, wherein: the levels of the social hierarchy of the -52- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction retrieved social template include: a first social hierarchy level which provides one level of information as selected in the retrieved social template, a second social hierarchy level which provides another level of information as selected in the retrieved social template, and a third social hierarchy level which provides a further level of information as selected in the retrieved social template; and the processor determines a level value of each -53- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction member by comparing the member with members assigned to having the first social hierarchy level, the second social hierarchy level, and the third social hierarchy level, and provides only as much information as allowed by the determined social hierarchy level. Claim 8 The communication system of claim 1, wherein, for at least one of the social templates, there is a single level of social hierarchy for a social networking service, and the processor automatically provides an update to the social networking service. “provided…/provides /providing an update”: plain and ordinary meaning “provided…/provides /providing an update”: “sent/ sends/sending information indicating a user’s status” -54- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction Claim 19 A method of automatically providing differing levels of information according to a predetermined social hierarchy, the method comprising: receiving sensor data at a server from a communication device having a sensor set producing the sensor data including a first detected sensor value from a first sensor and a second detected sensor value from a second sensor related to an environment of the communication device, the first detected sensor value of the sensor data comprising-55- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction optical information from an optical sensor of the sensor set which detects an amount of light of the environment of the communication device, and the second detected sensor value of the sensor data comprising acoustic information from an acoustic sensor of the sensor set which detects a sound level of the environment of the communication device; constructing a social signature using the received sensor data; determining which one of a plurality of social templates has a social signature with a greatest correspondence with the constructed social signature -56- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction through comparison of the first and second detected sensor values and first and second sensor value ranges of each social template, each social template corresponding to a unique social signature comprising corresponding first and second sensor value ranges and each social template being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy; and retrieving from a memory the determined one social template having -57- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction the greatest correspondence and having the detected amount of light within the first sensor value range, and the detected sound level within the second sensor value range, wherein at least one member of the predetermined social hierarchy is provided only as much information as allowed based on the retrieved social template. Claim 23 The method of claim 19, wherein the information provided by the retrieved social template is an update to a social networking service as allowed based on the-58- ’619 Patent Claim Agreed Proposed Construction e.Digital’s Proposed Construction Defendants’ Proposed Construction Court’s Construction retrieved social template. Claim 32 A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with processing instructions to implement the method of claim 19 executed by one or more processors.