In an interesting bit of serendipity the other day, I was playing around with CiteULike as a means of managing a whole pile of new research papers I’m ploughing through for my new research, and adding in my own set of personal publications when I stumbled across this patent that cites my 1993 paper Using Weakest Preconditions to Simplify Integrity Constraint Checking.
Seems the work I did for my PhD thesis (which extended the above paper) may actually have had practical value after all :-)
Now, I’ve scanned the patent text, but I can’t see what real value they’re adding that’s not already described in the published work, so I can only imagine that it is the specific application to the 5ESS switch that avoids the prior art clauses.
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