Exhibit A

WSOU v. Huawei – Claim Construction Disputed Terms (36)

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U.S. Patent No. 6,882,627

1. “performing a SRG (shared risk group) topology transformation of the network topology into 

a virtual topology that discourages the use of network resources” (claims 1, 29, 30)

2. “second code means adapted to, for at least one shared risk group, determine if any of the at 

least one shared risk group includes any of the first sequence of network resources” / “means 

adapted to, for at least one shared risk group, determine if any of the at least one shared risk 

group includes any of the first sequence of network resources” (claims 29, 30)

3. “third code means for performing a SRG (shared risk group) topology transformation of the 

network topology into a virtual topology which discourages the use of network resources” / 

“means for performing a SRG (shared risk group) topology transformation of the network 

topology into a virtual topology which discourages the use of network resources” (claims 29, 

30)

U.S. Patent No. 7,508,755

4. “switch over message” (claims 1, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25)

5. “originating network device” (claims 1, 3, 20)

6. “means for re-routing traffic traveling along the bi-directional LSP in the backwards 

direction to the alternate path in the backwards direction based on the switch over message” 

(claim 8)

/“means for re-routing traffic traveling along a bi-directional LSP in a backwards direction to 

an alternate path in the backwards direction based on the switch over message” (claim

23) /“means for re-routing traffic traveling along the bi-directional LSP in a backwards 

direction to the same alternate path in the backwards direction based on the switch over 

message” (claim 25) 7. “means for transmitting a switch over message along the alternate path in the forward 

direction to a merging network device responsive for re- routing traffic traveling along the 

bi- directional LSP in a backward direction to the alternate path in the backward direction” 

(claim 20)

“means for transmitting a switch over message, along the alternate path in the forward 

direction, for re-routing traffic traveling along the bi- directional LSP in a backward 

direction” (claim 25)

8. “means for re-routing traffic traveling along a bi-directional LSP in a forward direction to an 

alternate path in the forward direction” (claims 20, 25)

9. “means for means for [sic] receiving traffic traveling along a bi-directional LSP in a forward 

direction to an alternate path in the forward direction” (claims 23)

U.S. Patent No. 7,860,512

10. “capacity” (claims 1-18, 21-24, 27)

U.S. Patent No. 7,892,973

11. “the message” (claims 1, 9)

12. “a message to the upstream device to reduce a rate at which packets are sent to the queuing 

device to prevent the queue from filling” (claims 1 and 9)

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13. “a module for sending the message from the e stream device to an upstream network 

device to thereby control a rate at which the upstream device receives packets from the 

upstream network device” (claim 9)

14. “a module for, if the depth of the queue passes a predetermined threshold, sending a 

message to the upstream device to reduce a rate at which packets are sent to the queuing 

device to prevent the queue from filling, thereby preventing packet discarding and loss by 

the queuing device” (claim 9)

15. “a module for sending a message reporting the depth of the queue to the upstream device to 

thereby enable the upstream device to determine whether to reduce or increase the rate at 

which the upstream device sends packets to the queuing device” (claim 9)

U.S. Patent No. 8,200,224

16. “selecting a first candidate base station using said evaluation of said signal quality from said 

first measurement report” (claim 1)

17. “executable program means for causing a base station to perform the method when the 

program is run on the base station” (claim 15)

U.S. Patent No. 8,417,112

18. “determining whether said collected BER values worsen over time” (claims 1, 11)

U.S. Patent No. 9,084,199

19. “associated with a quality of the received CQI” / “associated with a quality of the received 

channel quality indicator (CQI)” (claims 1, 9, 15)

20. “dynamically adjust a CQI channel configuration based on the comparison” (claims 1, 9)

21. “generated by filtering frame based quality metrics over a plurality of frames” (claim 1) /

“generated by filtering frame based quality metrics over a period of more than one frame” 

(claim 9)

22. “means for generating soft decision quality metrics from a decoding process for a received 

channel quality indicator (CQI)” (claim 9)

23. “means for comparing at least one of the quality metrics to a quality setting” (claim 9)

24. “means for determining whether to dynamically adjust a CQI channel configuration based 

on the comparison” (claim 9)

U.S. Patent No. 8,249,446

25. “output indicator” (claims 1, 15)

26. “output [indicator] threshold” (claims 1, 15)

27. “[A method of /Apparatus for] regulating rogue behavior in an [optical network component 

comprising an optical transmitter/optical transmission device]” (claims 1 and 15)

U.S. Patent No. 6,999,727

28. “corrected errors” (all asserted claims)

29. “means for implementing a Performance Monitoring function based on data retrieved 

through a Forward Error Correction function” (claims 4,5)

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30. “means for classifying said blocks as either corrected or uncorrected through the Forward 

Error Correction Function” (claims 4, 5)

31. “means for calculating the Performance Monitoring function by implementing a correlation 

of the information regarding said corrected and uncorrected blocks” (claims 4, 5)

32. “implementing a Performance Monitoring function based on data retrieved through a 

Forward Error Correction function” (claims 6, 7)

33. “classifying said blocks as corrected or uncorrected through the Forward Error Correction 

function” (claims 6, 7)

34 “a number of corrected errors (BCE) in a non-SCS base reference time period” (all asserted 

claims)

U.S. Patent No. 8,429,480

35. “hybrid automatic repeat request process” (claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11-19)

36. “the resources are persistently allocated for transmitting the new uplink packet transmission” 

(claim 2)

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