Patents are a weird beast. They are written to be as broad as human language could possibly be coaxed to allow. The abstract matters for very little. There will

Patents are a weird beast. They are written to be as broad as human language could possibly be coaxed to allow. The abstract matters for very little. There will be a list of specific claims later in the doc. These count for everything. The claims will usually begin obscenely broadly, practically "I have invented a way to perform calculations with electricity." Each subsequent claim will add an additional refinement/limitation to the previous one, and then lawyers will play games trying to see how broad of a claim can be admitted. The patent attorneys will eventually let the applicants claim the broadest claim for which no prior art can be easily discovered. Filing a software patent is a weird undertaking. You describe to a lawyer your idea, which takes like 2 minutes. Then they have you brainstorm for every possible extension of it you can think of for an hour or so. Then the lawyer disappears and comes back with a 60 page document that seemingly makes almost no mention of your actual idea. Then you sign that you definitely invented whatever the word salad says.