WOW! You can store time series in a database! This is an amazing invention!!!
Time-Series Database patented by GE
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Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#22To determine if you infringe this patent, you only need to look at the claims - specifically, the independent claims (claim 1). If you do anything differently, you don't infringe.
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#23To determine if you infringe this patent, you only need to look at the claims - specifically, the independent claims (claim 1). If you do anything differently, you don't infringe.
Well, that is not quite true. You also need definitions for the words used in the claims, which may require reading the description to understand properly. But certainly the claims are where you start your analysis.
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I in no way agreeing with this decision why are these people responsible for the terrible decision of the USPTO? They just get to apply for a patent, not issue one. The employee(s) at the USPTO that approved this patent are the ones that should be ashamed.
Because flooding the USPTO with an unending flow of bogus patents are partly why those same patents get approved. They're taking part of a system that takes advantage of an underfunded and understaffed agency in order to profit from it in the long term, knowing that they will get away with it for years and be able to milk millions through the courts long before anyone big enough shuts them down. Patent trolling effec…
The USPTO is a profit center for the US government. Every extra patent submitted reduces the amount of tax everyone else has to pay. If the USPTO is approving bogus patents then should not the effort be on solving this rather than stopping people applying?
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#25It may be a bit of a liberal reading of it but doesn't the database that the patent is stored in on that page violate the patent? It certainly has date stamped data which is ingested and query-able...
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#26It may be a bit of a liberal reading of it but doesn't the database that the patent is stored in on that page violate the patent? It certainly has date stamped data which is ingested and query-able...
Just wait for the next patent to be approved by USPTO: "Method of assigning exclusive rights to an inventor."
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#27Seems you can't sue the USPTO for issuing bad patents according to this[1]. But I think you should be compensated for the cost of a lawsuit based on bad patents. [1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2012/12/suing-the-uspto-for-issu...
You can be, if the judge in the eventual suit decides in your favor for legal fees. But this can take years, and patent trolls big and small tend to deliberately target only those who can't really afford to fight them.
You right on this. I meant that the USPTO seems to have no incentive to stop bad patents. I don't think a small time inventor submitting an idea that seems novel for him should be punished when he tries to enforce this in good faith. USPTO should have the resources and the expertise to stop bad patent and when they fail they should compensate for the mess they create. They are played by NPE and big companies and don't defend the small inventor and the society in general. They fail their public mission.
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because flooding the USPTO with an unending flow of bogus patents are partly why those same patents get approved. They're taking part of a system that takes advantage of an underfunded and understaffed agency in order to profit from it in the long term, knowing that they will get away with it for years and be able to milk millions through the courts long before anyone big enough shuts them down. Patent trolling effec…
The USPTO is a profit center for the US government. Every extra patent submitted reduces the amount of tax everyone else has to pay. If the USPTO is approving bogus patents then should not the effort be on solving this rather than stopping people applying?
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Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty much in no way whatsoever. RRDtool as a prior art example.
Unfortunately, USPTO only considers other patents or academic papers as prior art.
RRDTool: Logging and Graphing.
J Sellens - USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track, 2006
The GE patent pertains to metadata indexing and query resolution against a distributed block store, so RRDTool doesn't really apply anyway. Maybe something using HDF5 hyperslabs on a parallel distributed file system would though.
Re: Time-Series Database patented by GE
#30It may be a bit of a liberal reading of it but doesn't the database that the patent is stored in on that page violate the patent? It certainly has date stamped data which is ingested and query-able...
Just wait for the next patent to be approved by USPTO: "Method of assigning exclusive rights to an inventor."
Who wants to file "Method of assigning exclusive rights to an inventor." with me?