How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)
How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)
Posted May 13, 2011 17:04 UTC (Fri) by salvarsan (guest, #18257)In reply to: How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters) by pharm
Parent article: How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)
Re: patent 5893120
The claims are for a method of using of hash tables with linked lists
for hash collisions, and deletion of expired nodes (garbage collection).
Doctor Dobb's Journal published equivalent source in the late 80's.
How did Bedrock ever get a 1997 patent for that?!
What's next? Will they stripmine some fundamental algorithms from Knuth,
Sedgewick, et.al., string them together in a few object classes, and patent
the results?