Congratulations! I'd definitely write up a blog post. If you find the feedback confirms the originality, you might then consider writing a short paper for arX

Congratulations! I'd definitely write up a blog post. If you find the feedback confirms the originality, you might then consider writing a short paper for arXiv. After that, sprinkle appropriate references in StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. so folks can find your work. If you are in the US, I would not spend any time or energy trying to figure out a patent. With the "Alice" ruling [1] in 2014, the Supreme Court has effectively said that algorithms and business methods that are performed just "....on a general purpose computer" are not patentable. Also, should you get a patent, then what? Royalties to individual inventors w/o actually developing and selling a product...it virtually never happens. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...