Internet, Web and Cloud Expert Witness

Expert testimony services for Internet Protocols, Web technologies, and cloud computing patent litigation

Dr. Lavian offers Internet protocols expert witness services in patent litigation cases, including expert testimony, expert witness reports and declarations, and patent analysis involving Internet technologies, standards, and protocols. Dr. Lavian provides courtroom presence, clear testimony, and an ability to effectively distill complex concepts into understandable basics and commonsense.

Dr. Lavian’s extensive experience with Internet protocols, Web technology, and cloud computing, especially as implemented through the TCP/IP protocol suite, gives him a keen understanding of the logic behind business software and its component application, transport, network, data link, and physical layers.

Internet Protocols, Web, and Cloud Technologies

Drawing on experience in researching, designing, developing, and implementing real-world network software, Dr. Lavian’s expertise includes:

Internet protocols, TCP/IP protocol suite, TCP, UDP, IP, MAC, ARP/RARP, BOOTP IPv4, IPv6, and IPSec.
Ethernet, 802.3, Physical Layer, PHY, MAC, Data Link, Network, and Transport layers (L2, L3, L4), Frame, Datagram, Packet, Session.
Network architecture, system and network configuration, network management
Internet technologies, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, NNTP, VPN SIP, and RTP
Network protocols e-mail, SMTP, POP, IMAP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, and SNMP
Architecture and Cloud Computing, Web applications, client-server, cloud computing, distributed computing, peer-to-peer networking, virtual private networks, tunneling, content networking, network security, and mobile applications.
Programming languages, Communications Software, Java, C/C++, software APIs, network configuration and scripting, and network management.
Web technologies, cloud communications, distributed applications, and distributed computing.

Expert Witness Services

As an expert in Internet protocol suite, Cloud computing, and Web technologies, Dr. Lavian offers expert witness services in patent litigation cases, including:

Expert testimony in United States District Courts, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), International Trade Commission (ITC), and other courts across the United States and Canada.
Testimony before USPTO PTAB, including Inter partes review (IPR), Covered Business Method (CBM), Post Grant Review (PGR), Ex-Parte Re-Examination, and PTO Interference.
Testimony at depositions, oral hearings, and trials.
Technology education for claim constructions and Markman hearings.
Expert reports and declarations, including infringement analysis, validity analysis, claim terms constructions, and interpretations.
Articulation of technical material for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Product and technology analysis related to patent portfolios, claim charts, prior art investigation, and patentability research.

Internet protocols (TCP/IP) and Cloud Computing – Past Expert Witness Cases:

Telecommunications architecture, PSTN, and VoIP patents (IPR, declarations, depositions).
Web services and Internet technologies patents (IPR, CBM, Expert reports, depositions).
Network communications, routing, and switching technology investigation (prior art research, invalidity claim charts).
Router switching fabric architecture and Ethernet pseudo-wire VPN patents (IPR, invalidation expert reports, and deposition testimonies).
MPLS Tunneling patents, IETF RFCs standards for MPLS (IPR).
Operational Support System (OSS), SNMP, and Device Management.
Network management for IP-PBX. Internet Protocols, TCP/IP, Network Management, SNMP (Federal court, expert reports, and depositions).

Selected publications in Internet and cloud

Scientific publications co-authored by Dr. Lavian relevant to the Internet and Cloud:

“Applications Drive Secure Light-path Creation across Heterogeneous Domains , Feature Topic Optical Control Planes for Grid Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Vision.” Gommans L.; Van Oudenaarde B.; Dijkstra F.; De Laat C.; Lavian T.; Monga I.; Taal A.; Travostino F.; Wan A.; IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 100-106.
Lambda Data Grid: Communications Architecture in Support of Grid Computing . Tal I. Lavian, Randy H. Katz; Doctoral Thesis, University of California at Berkeley. January 2006.
“Information Switching Networks.” Hoang D.B.; T. Lavian; The 4th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications, and Signal Processing, WITSP2005, December 19-21, 2005, Sunshine Coast, Australia.
“Impact of Grid Computing on Network Operators and HW Vendors .” Allcock B.; Arnaud B.; Lavian T.; Papadopoulos P.B.; Hasan M.Z.; Kaplow W.; IEEE Hot Interconnects at Stanford University 2005, pp.89-90.
DWDM-RAM: A Data Intensive Grid Service Architecture Enabled by Dynamic Optical Networks . Lavian T.; Mambretti J.; Cutrell D.; Cohen H.J; Merrill S.; Durairaj R.; Daspit P.; Monga I.; Naiksatam S.; Figueira S.; Gutierrez D.; Hoang D.B., Travostino F.; CCGRID 2004, pp. 762-764.
DWDM-RAM: An Architecture for Data Intensive Service Enabled by Next Generation Dynamic Optical Networks . Hoang D.B.; Cohen H.; Cutrell D.; Figueira S.; Lavian T.; Mambretti J.; Monga I.; Naiksatam S.; Travostino F.; Proceedings IEEE Globecom 2004, Workshop on High-Performance Global Grid Networks, Houston, 29 Nov. to 3 Dec. 2004, pp.400-409.

Selected presentations on Internet and cloud

Presentations and lectures by Dr. Lavian on the Internet and Cloud:

Selected patents in Internet and cloud

In addition to my research and development work, I am the named inventor on over 120 patents. A few of the patents in the field of Internet technologies and cloud computing are listed below:

Other Relevant Experience

Mobile application using cloud service APIs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Services (GCP), machine learning libraries, AI, and Python that enables a smartphone to search phone trees like Google searches the Internet.
Data-Center Communications: network and server orchestration
DRAC: SOA-facilitated L1/L2/L3 network dynamic controller
Open platform: project for the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Network resource orchestration for Web services workflows
A proxy study between Web/grids services and network services
Streaming content replication: real-time Audio/Video media multicast at the edge
Packet capturing and forwarding service on IP and Ethernet traffic
CO2: content-aware agile networking
Active networks: US DARPA-funded research program
ORE: programmable network service platform
JVM platform: Java on network devices
Web-based device management: network device management
Designed and developed network communications software products in C/C++ –
Invented and implemented a two-way paging product –
System and network communications in C/C++
Real-time software and algorithms in C/C++ and Pascal