Linked list patent

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:

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blackjack2150

andre12345 wrote:

What next? The array...

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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:

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Lost User

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

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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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