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Pretty much in no way whatsoever. RRDtool as a prior art example.
by dozzie 11y ago
Pretty much in no way whatsoever. RRDtool as a prior art example.
- kbody 11y agokdb as well, I would imagine them having some kind of patent.
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- thanatropism 11y agoSo I don't know the first thing about software patents, but most central banks (including the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, etc.) -- offer web interfaces for manipulating and retrieving economic time-series (say, taking logarithms, adjusting for inflation or PPP, etc). Does this count as "prior art"? The European Council also has a large, useful system called Eurostat.
- moron4hire 11y agoUnfortunately, USPTO only considers other patents or academic papers as prior art.
- rch 11y agoRRDTool: Logging and Graphing. J Sellens - USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track, 2006 The GE patent pertains to metadata indexing and query resolution against a distributed block store, so RRDTool doesn't really apply anyway. Maybe something using HDF5 hyperslabs on a parallel distributed file system would though.
- davelnewton 11y agoAre you sure? I've been involved in several instances where demonstrable systems were enough.
- moron4hire 11y agoSorry, that was just what two different patent officers told me. If they were wrong, I wouldn't be surprised.
- chollida1 11y agoThankfully that is incorrect. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/10/02/what-is-prior-art/id=12677/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/10/02/what-is-prior-art/id=12...