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What a ridiculous patent!
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 05:35 PM EDT
Three modules, using same heuristic -- OK.
Three modules, using all different heuristics -- OK
Three modules, two of which use same heuristic -- patent violation,
infringements of Apple's most holy IP.

I dunno ... AHA! If _I_ owned that patent, _I_'d want to rule the world with
it!

Makes perfect sense to me!

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Unfortunately, CAFC would disagree
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 06:05 PM EDT
According to the Rader Circus every random thought deserves 17 years of monopoly
protection.

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Heuristics are not a calculation?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 06:58 PM EDT
"... I used
heuristics to accomplish something rather than a
calculation"

Sorry, but heuristics ARE a calculation. The calculation might
be "fuzzy", or "weighted", or whatever term you might like
to
apply, but it's still a calculation.....the computer cannot do
anything other.

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You are talking nonsense!
Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 04:18 AM EDT
It's an absolutely stunning invention. I'm... I'm... stunned. How did they ever
invent the different heuristic algorithm in each search thingy?

After centuries of being restrained to just the one heuristic algorithm in every
search thingy, this is a tremendous advance in the whole science of looking for
stuff.

Google must be quaking in their boots. They will be sidelined overnight when the
multi-algorithm search is introduced. Their business will be over and out.

</irony>

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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