Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>| Mangosoft?s patent covers a networked virtual memory system. The virtual
>| memory is formed by pooling storage capacity on the local networked computers
>| (nodes) rather than relying on a primary server. Oracle?s Real Application
>| Clusters do something similar ? but use a cluster of memory devices (akin to
>| a RAID).
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>| The appeal focuses on the definition of a ?local? storage device. The CAFC
>| agreed with the district court that the ?local? limitation requires that the
>| storage device be individually linked to a computer to form a network node.
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> http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/05/phillips-claim.html
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This stuff just becomes increasingly ridiculous. Networks are made of
nodes with transport between them. Whether the transport is 0.5us or
500ms away does not, in any way, change the function of the node.
Having lawyers make determinations around the fundamental physics of
networking is stupid.
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