Re: ARC patent - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ARC patent
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Msg-id 10668.1105996628@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ARC patent  ("John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au>)
Responses Re: ARC patent  (Nicolai Tufar <ntufar@gmail.com>)
Re: ARC patent  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Re: ARC patent  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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"John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au> writes:
>> Unfortunately no. The document that inspired me to adapt ARC for 
>> PostgreSQL is from the USENIX File & Storage Technologies 
>> Conference (FAST), March 31, 2003, San Francisco, CA.

> Ahemm,... Isn't the patent lodged on may 20, 2004, AFTER you read the document from the above conference?

No, the filing date was in 2002.  I'm not sure what the May/04 date means;
possibly the date of the last activity in that patent file?
        regards, tom lane


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