Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict (The Register)
Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict (The Register)
Posted Apr 21, 2011 23:04 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict (The Register) by orcmid
Parent article: Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict (The Register)
If that's the novelty, it's not very novel. Opportunistic, incremental garbage collection is very old. So is hash indexing. So, the idea of opportunistically GCing "expired" hash-indexed records is pretty obvious.
If we had a more competent patent office, that would not have passed the "obviousness" test.
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