[queensnake]

> The claims are not supposed to tell you how to implement the invention

That part of the original deal around patents has been lost, then - to wit, that after the 17 years elapsed, the world would know how to implement this 'non-obvious invention'.

[axman6]

That's the role of the description, not the claims. Though according to some people here, all that you need to read is the title of the patent to decide whether it's novel and inventive.