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Luckily, patents aren't granted for ideas, but for specific executions. Granted, the execution is generally defined at a higher level than, say, "this exact chu
by roc 11y ago
Luckily, patents aren't granted for ideas, but for specific executions. Granted, the execution is generally defined at a higher level than, say, "this exact chunk of silicon". But it's at a much lower level than the "idea".
- Tloewald 11y agoWhen it comes to digital technology patents are often granted for ideas or concepts so general as to be ridiculous. Whether those patents stand up in court is another thing but even there -- as in this case -- there are no guarantees of sanity. I hope Apple will appeal.
- baldfat 11y agoThe more general and broad the patent the more valuable it is. The system rewards big general patents.
- ajross 11y agoIn the case in question, there appears to be no implementation or execution by the UW folks, certainly not one appropriated by Apple. This looks like an "idea" about instruction scheduling to me.
- mzs 11y ago5.1 Methodology The results we present have been collected on a simulator that faithfully represents a Multiscalar processor. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.7.7876&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.7.7... Dynamic Speculation and Synchronization of Data Dependences, Moshovos et al, Proc. ISCA-24, June 1997