[beagle3]

All agreed.

Except the company for which this technique was developed (and patent was written) was acquired, partly on the basis of this cluster of patents (which the buyer believed would give them ammo against the leaders in the field). So the guru was right in the path he took.

I will not give the patent number because that will expose me (no thank you), and I'm aware of workarounds. The thing is, That's true of every software patent[1] I've seen that is not mandated by some standard. Do you have counterexamples?

[1] there's no such thing as a software patent, of course.

[everydayman]

Ok good to hear - the patent(s) facilitated investment (e.g. acquisition of the startup) as intended.

There are workarounds to just about every way of doing something. The question is how feasible and practical the workaround is.