I can counter sue for my ingenious invention for organizing information, which I will publish here as I get started on the multi-thousand dollar patent application process. Most human readable information, such as this post, is expressed letters of the English alphabet. By examining that information we can categorize it. Once it is categorized it can then be reasonably ordered by the letters of the most significant word in the list, just like numbers. As each letter of the alphabet has a numeric code assigned to it by ASCII, the process can be automated and several good algorithms are available. The business process looks like this:
Information ==> rationalization by concept ==> lists ==> ordering routine ==> ordered information. This ordered information can be broken down into smaller groups of information that are convenient to handle. In the physical world, I would recommend placing these groups of information in commonly available files with tabs that can be labeled. In the cyber world, this method smashes concerns about the 2GB file size barrier and is of obvious practical significance. Yes, IBM will be crushed when I patent alphabetization as a business method. On 2004.02.06 17:42 Dustin Puryear wrote: > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13813 > > Open source developers will control the world, unless of course their > development model is under a patent. :) > >
