by Andrew Schulman | Feb 22, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
An earlier post notes some examples of “deep indexing” of the textual contents of commercial software products: Such deep indexing of binary code files has been done in some limited areas, such as the superb PDP-10 software archive at...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 22, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
The White House recently announced the US PTO’s launch of “Ask Patents” (a forum at the “Stack Exchange”) as a crowdsourcing platform to identify prior art. Right now, the forum seems to mostly have general questions and answers. There...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 15, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
The previous post discussed the US government’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL), a collection of 15,000 commercial products, currently indexed by files (hash, filename.ext) comprising each product. The post posed the question whether the NSRL could be...