Opinion ID: 615097
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Parties' Accused Products

Text: Absolute and Stealth sell competing software products for tracking lost or stolen laptop computers. Stealth's product is the XTool Computer Tracker (XTool or XTool Tracker). There are two important features of the XTool Tracker as it relates to this appeal: (1) the agent (i.e., the software program) of the XTool Tracker sends message packets to the host that, when they arrive, contain both the IP address of the client computer and the IP address of the host, and it is undisputed that the agent furnishes at least the IP address of the client computer; and (2) to design around the contacting . . . without signaling limitation of Absolute's '914 Patent, Stealth added an audible signal that occurs at the end of every communication between the agent and the host, just before the connection ends. Absolute's product is called Computrace. Importantly for this appeal, it is undisputed that the Computrace product is designed to initiate a call to the monitoring center 24.5 hours following the completion of its previous call. It is also undisputed that Absolute's Computrace product transmits an electronic serial number relating to a licensing or usage agreement to the host monitoring center but does not transmit the actual terms of the licensing or usage agreement.