[hermannj314]

it still seems to me to describe trivial stuff

It is patent number 8,370,271. With numbers that large, it probably has to allow trivial stuff.

I'm just glad that on November 2nd, 2029, society will be able to use a computer system to manage a list of items to be delivered. We have only to thank the brilliant minds at Amazon and the framers of our Constitution, otherwise such an important contribution to science and the useful arts may have been lost for generations.

[smsm42]

That is provided patent terms won't be extended - to promote even more Useful Arts. Because, you know, there's never enough Useful Arts, and if patents help promoting them - why not extend them for longer terms? Look what is happening to copyrights - once Public Domain advancement line hits Mickey Mouse, it stops dead. Why patents shouldn't work this way too? After all, people seem to be fine living with this broken system and writing this kind of patents and pay millions to lawyers to sue each other over such un-trivial questions as who invented linked lists and who invented delivery schedules.