Linked List Patented in 2006 477
An anonymous reader writes "Congratulations are in order to Ming-Jen Wang of LSI Logic Corporation who, in patent #10260471 managed to invent the linked list. From the abstract, "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." Good-bye doubly linked list. We should also give praise to the extensive patent review performed by Cochran Freund & Young LLP."
Prior Art? (Score:5, Funny)
wow. (Score:4, Funny)
Doesn't patent insertion and deletion (Score:5, Funny)
Re:oh dear (Score:5, Funny)
*smack*
Go back to Algorithms and Data Structures, Do not pass go, Do no increment the Counter by 200
Re:Prior Art? (Score:4, Funny)
Well allright then! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah (Score:5, Funny)
I read about this technique about 23 years ago. What is going on here? This looks like material for a slashdot poll, viz:-
Why do you think that the latest LSI is bogus?
What about it, guys?
--E.
Re:This is a good thing? (Score:5, Funny)
Aww Shoot... (Score:5, Funny)
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I think you misunderstood. To make the links, you take about 5-6 inches of reel-to-reel tape, wrap it around to form a loop, and then seal it with a bit of sticky tape. Then you take the next piece of reel-to-reel, and loop it through the first before sealing it, thus forming the link. The prior art the GPP mentioned is found in every school for five-year-olds in the country, around 15 December every year, and has been since long before your new-fangled punch cards were invented! :-)
Re:Doesn't patent insertion and deletion (Score:4, Funny)
1 : something that is inserted : as a : the part of a muscle that inserts b : the mode or place of attachment of an organ or part c : embroidery or needlework inserted as ornament between two pieces of fabric d : a section of genetic material that is inserted into an existing gene sequence
2 a : the act or process of inserting b : the mutational process producing a genetic insertion
Re:oh dear (Score:5, Funny)
You cannot dereference the pointer; that's impossible. You must first realize that there is no pointer, and that you're only dereferencing yourself.
I wish they had waited .... (Score:3, Funny)
If Hemos had waited there would have been some real funny comments from all US and EU.
If Ming-Jen Wang and LSI Logic Corporation had waited to file, then the date would
have clued US and EU all in on the tasteless joke of the few, on the many of US and EU.
DAMN, Hemos "PLEASE" next time save it for April 1,
because IPR/PO are so dang dumb-funny, we could all
be brought to tears and have a good cynical laugh.
Re:Previous Slashdot discussion of this patent (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Prior Art? (Score:3, Funny)
Youngsters.
In my day we had to make cast the bronze ourselves and then file out every little gear tooth by hand just to make a machine that would run one non-reprogramable calculation. And we were happy for it!
The site displaying the patent ... (Score:3, Funny)
The site displaying the patent must use linked lists somewhere in the code. The menu at the top says "Browse by Inventor", "Browse by Date" etc...
Presumably the patent site existed before the patent was submitted.
Re:Prior Art? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is a good thing? (Score:4, Funny)
The next time you're in the USA, dude, pay up.....
I own the patent: Process and/or Method of NOT Living in the United States
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make cast? (Score:5, Funny)
make cast? I've done make, make install, make clean, make menuconfig, make xconfig, make modules make modules install, but I've never done make cast...
But obviously I've never compiled anything with a linked list in it anyhow, since this dude just barely invented them.
The Patent Examiner (Score:5, Funny)
My regime would require this for patents that are blatantly obvious or have as much published prior art as linked lists do. You can be there'd be a lot fewer frivolous patents issued if the examiner and the applicant were forced to eat the printouts if the patent turned out to be retarded.
My new patent... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:oh dear (Score:4, Funny)
C: You shoot yourself in the foot.
C++: You accidently create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying "That's me, over there."
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