Opinion ID: 2673152
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Heading: The Jouppi Patent

Text: The Jouppi patent issued on September 18, 2001. U.S. Patent No. 6,292,713, at [45] (filed May 20, 1999). It discloses a robotic telepresence system that has a user station at a first geographic location and a robot at a second geographic location. Id. at [57]. The patent describes a robot with cameras and two-way audio-video technology controlled by a remote user. See id. col. 3 ll. 25–32. The robot responds to commands from a remote terminal. See id. col. 3 ll. 43–47. Two different types of remote terminals are discussed: a user station and an immersion room. The user station can be permanent (e.g., desktop) or mobile (e.g., laptop). See id. col. 12 l. 64– col. 13 l. 67. The immersion room is similar to a movie theater conference room, which “functions as a user 10 INTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. VGO COMMUNICATIONS, INC. station and provides the user with a sense of being in the remote geographic location.” See id. col. 13 ll. 55–58. The written description also states that the robotic telepresence procedures include: “A con- nect_to_user_station procedure 722 that establishes the communication connection via the wireless transmitter/receiver 76 to the user station or immersion room.” Id. col. 17 ll. 35–38.