Opinion ID: 2796395
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Heading: “message playback device” and “operable to

Text: GENERATE AND TRANSMIT CONTROL SIGNALS” The district court’s construction of both of these terms rests on its adopted construction that limits the claimed invention to server-initiated transmissions. The construction of “message playback device” includes the requirement that the device be “adapted to receive control signals after initiation of contact from another source.” Claim Construction Order, at  (emphasis added). Similarly, the construction of “operable to generate and transmit control signals” requires the capability “to initiate contact with the message playback device.” Id. at . Additionally, the latter term includes the term “transmit.” Because the construction of each of these terms depends on the construction of the term transmit, we reverse the district court’s construction of the terms “message playback device” and “operable to generate and transmit control signals.”