Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080059576
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Claude Baudoin (almost 5 years ago)
Regarding Claim 00014, I don't get the silliness of specifying one particular hard number (6). Why not add 98 dependent claims with all numbers between 3 and 100? Does it mean that the author is sure that using 5 or 7 would be so less efficient than 6 that no one will want to implement it, so they don't need to be bothered protecting cases other than 6? Strange...Claude Baudoin (almost 5 years ago)
Regarding Claim 00010, I suspect, without having researched the details, that this is a classical problem in graph theory, which is a domain of mathematics (non-patentable) that has been explored decades ago and on which there was, at the time, abundant literature in "Communications of the ACM" and similar publications. A second point is that the method described does not avoid tying yourself up in knots recursively -- it fails to mention that when you go from A to its direct contacts, and then from those contacts to *their* contacts, you need to exclude A from the results list to avoid doing a lot of useless work.Claude Baudoin (almost 5 years ago)
Regarding Claim 00005, it is a trivial variant on Claim 00004, and in fact it is provably useless. The next claim implies that all that matters is that longer paths are rated less than shorter paths, so it is irrelevant which monotonically decreasing function of the length is chosen!PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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