Opinion ID: 2673152
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Heading: Claim Construction Order

Text: On November 16, 2012, the district court issued its Claim Construction Order. Claim Construction Order, InTouch Techs., No. 11-cv-9185 (C.D. Cal. Nov. 16, 2012), ECF No. 199. The parties disputed the construction of numerous claim terms. The court construed the following terms relevant to this appeal: (1) the ’357 patent claim 1 The first amended complaint also alleged in- fringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,289,883 and 7,310,570. In July 2012, the district court granted the parties’ stipulation to dismiss InTouch’s infringement claims for these two patents. INTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. VGO COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 13 term “arbitrator” as “a device that determines which user or station has exclusive control, or which user’s commands the robot should follow”; (2) the ’030 patent claim term “arbitrating to control access to the robot by either the first remote station or the second remote station” as “determining which remote station has exclusive control of the robot”; (3) the ’357 patent claim term “call back mechanism” as “a device that sends a message to a specific user who previously was denied access to a particular mobile robot that the same mobile robot can now be accessed”; (4) the ’962 patent claim term “controlling in real-time operation of the camera which provides video to be displayed through input to a pointing device so as to provide direct control of the motion of the camera through movement of the pointing device” as “controlling the motion of the camera based on translational (e.g. side-toside, forward, back) movement of the pointing device, as distinguished from control in which a user moves the pointing device to a particular location on the screen and clicks a button to reorient the camera”; and (5) the ’962 patent claim term “means for actuating the camera associated with the video conferencing system in a direction indicated by the movement data” as a means plus function term whose corresponding structure was “computer software or a special purpose hardware-based computer system that moves the camera, as shown in Figures 4 and 5 and as described in Column 8:5-35.” See id. at 5–6, 9– 11, 14–16.