Holy crap, that's the reason this algorithm isn't all over the place? That seriously irks me, and this one seems like a great patent to look for either Tesla-es

Holy crap, that's the reason this algorithm isn't all over the place? That seriously irks me, and this one seems like a great patent to look for either Tesla-esque giveaway or just invalidation (EFF, anybody?). Smart generic caching could do so much for the global infrastructure with all the data we move around these days.