Star Discussion: Sherlock 3, AKA Watson Replica?
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 18:36 UTC
Editorial Remember a month ago, when I urged the open source developers to take on this software and develop something equivelant and multi-platform? It seems that the only people who actually got interested in my $100 USD offer... was Apple.
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MS Patent: 6,408,270 ? ?
by moshek on Fri 19th Jul 2002 20:21 UTC

WRT Patents, I'd hardly use the argument that innovation is quantifiable via the number of patents accrued. That this MS patent for example:

Patent No. 6,408,270 - A method of searching keyword phrases based on a search phrase includes a step of ordering the search phrase among the plurality of keyword phrases based on phoneme sequences of the search phrase and the keyword phrases, in accordance with a predefined phonetic search order.

Tell me if I am wrong but this clearly is the soundex algorithm with a *TINY* tweak. The US government used to use this algorithm to store the surnames in the census back in the 1920's (literally).

I know that this is off-topic here but I couldn't let that patent statistic fly. As was jokingly said by my professor in statistics class: "There are white lies, there are damn lies, and their are statistics." =)