So, if I tell Apple Computers at the end of last millennium 'you should make a music player' then I would have been the inventor of all the facets of the iPod?

So, if I tell Apple Computers at the end of last millennium 'you should make a music player' then I would have been the inventor of all the facets of the iPod? Sometimes, but rarely, recognising the problem _is_ the invention; but outside of that I'd say the person in this process hasn't invented something and whatever development the computer generated should thus be unpatentable. They'll at least get first-to-market benefits.