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by RecycledEle 806 days ago
Can someone please ELI5: What tech did the patent cover?
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TruthWillHurt 805 days ago
Apparently by taking prior art (DNS, server,user interface), and packaging it into a single "product" (DNS software optimized for specific hardware) - You've created a new thing.

INNOVATION!

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manicennui 805 days ago
Which is basically how software engineering is done.
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tsimionescu 805 days ago
They cover some methods for distributed storage systems that seem inspired by how DNS works.
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digestivetires 806 days ago
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ranger_danger 806 days ago
prior art basically.
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booi 806 days ago
common sense
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