[Udo]

It takes some nerve to actually be proud of that patent.

Luckily for the rest of us, there is not just one way to do sharding (which in the original version of your post you assertively referred to as "how to do sharding right").

It depends on the individual architecture and the tradeoffs people consider important. That means you don't get to have an undeserved but legal monopoly holding the entire scalable web hostage, just a part of it. Nevertheless: you should be ashamed of yourself.