EMC Corporation, et al. v. Pure Storage, Inc., C.A. No. 13-1985-RGA, January 12, 2015.

Andrews, J. The court considers eighteen terms from five patents following a Markman hearing held on December 16, 2014.  The court permitted oral argument on only ten disputed terms, but construed all eighteen terms submitted in the briefing.

The disputed technology relates to methods and apparatus for transferring and storing data

The court construed the following terms:

1. Determine/ determined/determining
2. Probabilistic summary
3. Identifier[s]
4. Return/returning
5. “a” in the phrase “a triggering event.”
6. Buffer memory
7. Scheduled
8. Any available address location
9. Write operations pending/ pending write operations
10. Channel adapter
11. Storage array adapter
12. Applying
13. Block(s) of data
14. Associated with the transmitted blocks of data
15. Memory board
16. Memory system
17. Memory region
18. Memory segments