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I hate reading patents because I always feel like they try to make it look as complicated as possible. In particular, I always find the inclusion of the comput
by sbov 16y ago
I hate reading patents because I always feel like they try to make it look as complicated as possible. In particular, I always find the inclusion of the computer architecture somewhat useless. Do we really care that there might be 25 software applications running on your computer? Is there any reason other than overcomplication (and thus making the patent appear more novel) to include this stuff?
Because of this, I just want to make sure I understand the patent properly:
From what I can tell, its a patent on a hash table that resolves collisions using chaining, implemented using linked lists. On top of this, each entry has an expiration time and it can remove them as it does lookups for entries.
- kenjackson 16y agoIn particular, I always find the inclusion of the computer architecture somewhat useless. Do we really care that there might be 25 software applications running on your computer? I think the reason for this is that it moves the patent from an idea/algorithm to one that runs on a physically manifested device.
- neilk 16y agoIn the USA, software patentability has always been dubious. But you can patent a complete physical setup that also runs software. So software patents are usually written as if one had invented some special-purpose device, that just happens to consist of hardware that looks remarkably like a standard PC, running software.