Linked list patent

[leppie]

Sorry, I can find the REJECT button :)

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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))

[DaveAuld]

How can they issue patents for this sort of thing. Going by the date, linked lists must have been used well before this was submitted.

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[Abu Mami]

andre12345 wrote:

The array...

Hey! Watch it. I've patented and copyrighted arrays. The term "array" is trademarked.

[leppie]

Like more than 50 years ago!

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[Nagy Vilmos]

I don't agree this should be patentable This is not for 'the' linked list but for 'a type of' linked list. Read the abstract: A computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences Me thinks that be the point here.

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[selcuks]

But it seemed to me as a different approach to Linked Lists that enables the user to sort the inside data with multiple sequences in a single list. I don't know if it is appropriate to patent this one, but I like the idea quite a bit. ;)

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[Lost User]

So, they go left to right instead of up and down? I'm off to patent a car that can drive sideways, before someone here gets the same idea :thumbsup:

I are troll :)

[blackjack2150]

andre12345 wrote:

What next? The array...

I'm still waiting the approval for my patents on the "+" sign and the digit "0".

[Pete OHanlon]

Ooh. Bad news[^] there I'm afraid.

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[Nagy Vilmos]

It's not up/down OR left/right, but up/down AND left/right. A normal linked list has a set of pointers that can be traversed along a single route. The Google Super-Duper Double-Pointer Linked List [tm] has not one but two sets of pointers. It's amazing! It means that rather then having to add each object to two linked lists, you can add it to one.

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[Lost User]

Whaha, very cool :laugh:

I are troll :)

[Lost User]

I'm sorry, can't get excited over it now that I have seen a car that can go sideways :laugh:

I are troll :)

[Andrew Torrance]

Not only was I using linked lists before the earliest date mentioned , I was reading about them in many a programming book . This is simply nonsense

[Robert Surtees]

These[^] are way cooler. Vid[^]

[Joe Woodbury]

Fortunately, recent court cases and USPTO rulings means this patent is invalid. Unfortunately, it's going to take a while for the system to flush these kinds of patents out.

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