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Is there a patent on this?

• cschmidt 11y ago
  Not that I'm aware of. (I've read a fair bit on the topic.)
• DennisP 11y ago
  The basic Gale-Shapley algorithm was published in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem
  • mapmap 11y ago
    Is this the algorithm that was discussed in the article? I couldn't find a link.
    • DennisP 11y ago
      Yes, from the article: "In the 1960s, researchers David Gale and Lloyd Shapley embarked upon research to take up an unlikely subject: matchmaking."