On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: >> But I'm not sure what you are trying to patent. The floating point >> hash probably has prior art so it is not patentable by itself. > > I looked but didn't find any.
And neither will the USPTO. It's too much work. That's why you find so many duplicate patents covering the same invention. When you sue someone for infringing, then they will do the proper research to invalidate your patent. >> If it >> is one step in a longer process, then anyone could work around it by >> substituting an integer hash, which is technically superior anyway. > > Its ONLY use is in two isolated dependent claims, the loss of which wouldn't > affect much of anything, especially since there are a couple of super-broad > independent claims that are at a higher level than details of hashing. I know. "The system of the previous claim where the hash value is a floating point number", etc. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
