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This was my first thought too. And then I remembered reading so many entries at the USPTO's website where they simply wrote about a 100-year old technology, obf
by qart 5y ago
This was my first thought too. And then I remembered reading so many entries at the USPTO's website where they simply wrote about a 100-year old technology, obfuscated the heck out of it with convoluted language, and got the patent through. The odds that this company is doing the same thing are pretty good.
- toomanybeersies 5y agoPatents are a joke. One of my old jobs holds (software) patents on my work. I built some pretty clever software, but I wouldn't have said that I "invented" anything. The actual content of the patents is absolutely ridiculous too. Here's an excerpt from one of the patents on my work: > There is also provided a system for identifying software capable of capturing personally identifiable information, comprising a module arranged to connect to a remote server via a local device, the module further being arranged to send at least one request for data and retrieve at least one packet of data in response to the request, and an identification module arranged to receive the retrieved at least one packet of data and determine whether the received data originated from a third party server other than the remote server, and if so, determine whether the received data received contains evidence of the presence of personally identifiable information It's almost indistinguishable from nonsense claims generated by GPT-2 [1]. Also, half the claims in the patents were for features that, in the end, were never even implemented. But worst of all, I'm not even credited as one of the inventors. I don't care one iota about the intellectual property, they can keep all claims to that, I just want the bragging rights. [1] https://aipatent.wordpress.com/1000-samples/ https://aipatent.wordpress.com/1000-samples/