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Google tries to patent ANS, which they did not invent
- paralelogram 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Numeral_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Numeral_Systems
- droidist2 9y agoGoogle is doing a lot of this stuff, filing patents on machine learning techniques from decades ago and loads of other things, and often getting the patents granted. It's pretty infuriating.
- mcappleton 9y agoA lot of it is probably defensive. If they don't Microsoft will and they'll just have to pay Microsoft. It's not their fault. It's the patent systems fault. I don't think you should be able to patent an algorithm, but that's just me
- Tanegashima 9y agoThis is exactly why I hate Google and want everything coming from them to fail. This won’t appear on mainstream tech sites, because Google buys the press, and with it, millions of fanboys. It’s a shame that excellent pool of talent is wasted in this company with no principles and ridiculously bad management.
- jiqiren 9y agoThis must be part of that "Don't be evil" mantra I keep hearing about.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y agoThe one that was officially dropped? Google may be a lot of things, but one can no longer throw that motto at them and call them hypocrites.
- Sir_Substance 9y agoLet's be clear on this: it was never official to begin with.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoWell, they kinda replaced it with Alphabet's "Do the right thing", which is equally meaningless and similarly hilarious when compared with their actual conduct.
- gregatragenet3 9y agoFigured stuff like this would happen when the US switched from first to invent to first to file. It was a bad change... But benefits the big co's who write the legislati.. I mean participate in our fine democracy by providing campaign contributions to those fine selfless individuals who run things from Washington.
- john_moscow 9y agoWouldn't the patent be immediately rendered void due to prior art anyway?
- lern_too_spel 9y agoAnother take from a Daala developer: https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html