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Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080162680

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Merlin Avery (over 4 years ago)

The problem with this invention that I see is it's generic terms upon what it's trying to accomplish. In theory, this patent based on what is said, could be applied to anything that does "Data lookup" over network using any form of addressing scheme. For example, if I send a request from a client application to a server and it has an ID in it, causing the server to respond with data, this patent would cover that.

So my question is, how is this an invention? Requesting data over an IP using "Addresses" has been done as far as I know since the use of IP.

Diane Willis (over 4 years ago)

Hi Merlin, Your comments are good. Do you know of any prior art along these lines? Prior art is passed along to patent examiners not comments in Discussion, but you probably already know that.
Diane Willis

Steven Pearson (almost 5 years ago)

RDMA (remote direct memory access) over IP seems to be out there and may be very close to what this application is doing. See an example treatise under "Research" tab.

Steven Pearson (almost 5 years ago)

Hmm, research area still allows only very short descriptive notes and truncates if they're too long. Here's the abstract from mentioned paper:

This paper gives an overview of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over IP. The first part of the paper is taken from an internet draft [RMTB02] that describes the problem of high system costs due to network I/O copying in end-hosts at high speeds. A review of experience and research over the last ten or so years shows that the problem is due to limits on available memory bandwidth, and the prohibitive cost of additional memory bandwidth, and that it can be substantially improved using copy avoidance.
The second part of the paper considers an RDMA over IP solution, giving background and current status. An architecture is described that is that currently being adopted by the RDMA Consortium and the RDDP WG in the IETF. Outstanding issues, some of a research nature, are considered.

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