{"id":999,"date":"2010-03-04T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=999"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:59:11","slug":"us-patent-linked-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2010\/03\/04\/us-patent-linked-list\/","title":{"rendered":"US Patent: Linked List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linked List was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&#038;printsec=abstract&#038;zoom=4#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\">patented<\/a>&#8230; no, not by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Knuth\">Donald Knuth<\/a> or some one working with Godfather of Computer Science.  No, the Linked List was patented by a Ming-Jen Wang of LSI Logic Corporation in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The patent abstract says,&#8221;A computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences.  One or more auxiliary pointers enable a fast, sequential traversal of the list with a minimum of computational time.  Such lists may be used in any application where lists may be reordered for various purposes.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>That is the same exact description of a pointer given in my college textbook, before this patent was filed.  It is clear that there is a patent land rush.  For would be inventors, the patent system is the best thing since sliced bread, and I&#8217;m sure this Ming-Jen Wang has that patent pending for sliced bread.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to patent the Linked Hash Map, because this guy patent&#8217;s that too.  Someone should patent the pointer, if that is not already patented.  If there is an ambulance chasing lawyer that would like to work pro bono, I think we should patent something critical to civilization, like calculus or pottery.  <\/p>\n<p>It is clear that omitting prior art is an art in itself that some have perfected to a science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linked List was recently patented&#8230; no, not by Donald Knuth or some one working with Godfather of Computer Science. No, the Linked List was patented by a Ming-Jen Wang of LSI Logic Corporation in 2006. The patent abstract says,&#8221;A computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-g7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}