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by raulk 3191 days ago
Graph query logic (US 9646028 B2)

https://www.google.com/patents/US9646028

1 comments

I don't understand how this can be a patent. I seem to be infringing on the patent every day whenever I try to navigate through xmls and json files with a friendly API. Can anyone shed some light on how this patent is innovative?
it's a commonly held view that software patents are almost entirely garbage.
you can remove the almost from that sentence.