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by mdda 4505 days ago
I don't see how the patent office didn't just google for 30 seconds...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320304...

Maybe the patent has interesting twists and turns, but applying known algorithms on previously known architectures doesn't seem like the innovation that they should hand out protection for 17 years.