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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 04:49 PM EDT |
No Dominic did not write the patent. It was written in 2000
when every single Operating System and Search Engine
wantabee was trying to replicate BeOS phenomenally fast Live
Real Time search tools withing Tracker's FIND tools. But
none of them realized it wasn't that easy on other file
systems that could not behave like virtual databases.
Consequently they all had to go with running periodic
maintenance to keep these virtual database systems up to
date on NTFS, EXT2, HFS+, because they did not natively
support database style live "Queries" like BFS did.
So there really is no "Unversal Search" tool that fulfills
this patent except Tracker FIND on BeOS. The rest require
constant maintenance and only work in certain situations on
certain kinds of files. That's why Spotlight on either Apple
platform is limited and therefore can not be said to fulfill
their own patent that was granted in 2004 only because the
USPTO was so busy, it never thoroughly vetted it's patent
claims.
Dominic had nothing to do with that. He only helped make
Spotlight more like BeOS's true "Universal Live Query Search
tools. It's a shame that Apple gets away with this for sure.
The patent should never have been granted in the place,
because prior art was all over the place and it all sprang
from this BeOS developer's file system expertise on BFS and
Tracker! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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