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INTHEUNITEDSTATESDISTRICTCOURTFORTHEDISTRICTOFDELAWARE
STOREDVALUESOLUTIONS,INC.,Plaintiff,
v.
CARDACTIVATIONTECHNOLOGIES,
INC"
:Defendant.C.A.No.09-495-JJF-LPS
REPORTANDRECOMMENDATIONREGARDINGCLAIMCONSTRUCTION
Thiscasehasbeenreferred
to
meforpurposesincludingprovidingrecommendedconstructionsfordisputedclaimtermsinthepatent-in-suitinthisdeclaratoryjudgmentaction.I
do
so
below.
BACKGROUND
A.
ProceduralHistory
PlaintiffStoredValueSolutions,Inc.("SVS")broughtthisactionseekingadeclaratoryjudgment
of
invalidity
of
U.S.PatentNo.6,032,859("the'859patent"),owned
by
DefendantCardActivationTechnologies,Inc.("CAT").
(D.1.
1)
Thematterwasreferred
to
meforclaimconstruction.
(D.1.
51)BriefingwascompletedonJanuary
27,2010
(D.1.
46;
D.1.
47)andIconductedaMarkmanhearingonMarch
8,
2010
(D.1.
60).
B.
The'859Patent
The'859patent,entitled"MethodforProcessingDebitPurchaseTransactionsUsinga
Counter-TopTerminalSystem,"issuedMarch
7,
2000onanapplicationfiledSeptember15,1997.
It
claimsprioritytotwoprovisionalapplications,Nos.60/025,281and60/033,153,whichwerefiledSeptember
18,1996
andDecember13,1996,respectively.The
'859
patentcontainsatotal
of
thirty-eightclaims,four
of
whichareindependent(claims
1,
10,20,and29).Generally,
the'
859patentrelatestoamethodforprocessingthreeprimarytypes
of
debitstyledcardtransactions:
1)
apurchasetransaction,whereinacustomerusesadebitstyledcardtopurchasegoodsand/orservices;2)activation
of
aphonecard;and3)aprepaiddebitcardtransactionwhereinacustomerpurchasesadebitcard
of
acertainvaluethatisdebitedeverytimeapurchase
is
madewiththeprepaidcard.
C.
Disputed
Terms
Thepartiespresentninedisputedclaimtermsforthe
Court's
construction:
(1)
"telecommunicationsmeans"
(claims
1,
10,20,
and29);
(2)
"debitstyled
card"
(claims
1,
10,20,
and29);(3)
"debitpurchasetransactions"
(claims
1,
10,20
and29);
(4)
"purChasingvalue
0/
acardinresponse
to
carduse"
(claims
1,
11,20,
and30);
(5)
"enteringacustomerauthorization
code/or
authorizingaccesstoacustomerdatabase
0/
ahostdataprocessor"
(claims
1,
10,21,and32);
(6)
"enteringaclerkauthorization
code/or
initiatingadebitpurchasetransaction"
(claims
1,
10,21,
and32);
(7)
"enteringanauthorizationcodethroughthe
keypad/or
havingthecomputerinitiatecommunicationwithahostdataprocessor"
(claims20and29);
(8)
"requestingaresponse
0/
approvalordisapproval/romthehostdataprocessor"
2
(claims1and20);and
(9)
"creditauthorizationprovider"
(claims9,
19,28,
and38).Allbuttwo
of
thedisputedclaim
tenns
(numbers7and9above)appearinindependentandexemplaryclaim1,reproducedbelow(withdisputedtermshighlighted):Amethodforprocessing
debitpurchasetransactions,
themethodcomprisingthestepsof:providingacounter-topterminalhaving
telecommunicationsmeans
operablewithacomputer,atleastonekeypadfordataentrytothecomputer,adisplayresponsivetothecomputer,andacardreadercommunicatingwiththecomputerformodifying
purchasingvalue
of
acardinresponsetocarduse;
enteringtransactiondatatothecomputerthroughkeypaddataentry;readinga
debitstyledcard
throughthecardreaderforprovidingcarddatatothecomputer;
enteringacustomerauthorizationcode
for
authorizingaccess
to
acustomerdatabase
of
ahostdataprocessor;enteringaclerkauthorizationcode
for
initiatingadebitpurchasetransaction;
electronicallytransmittingatransactionrequesttothehostdataprocessorthroughthe
telecommunicationsmeans
of
thecounter-topterminal
for
requestingaresponse
of
approvalordisapproval
from
thehostdataprocessor;
receivingaresponsefromthehostcomputer;anddisplayingtheresponsefromthehostdataprocessorforthedebitpurchasetransaction
on
thecounter-topterminaldisplay.
('859
patent,col.7lines46-67tocol.8lines
1-4)1
The
'859
patentappearsintherecordatD.l.44Ex.3.3
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