"John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au> writes:
>> Unfortunately no. The document that inspired me to adapt ARC for
>> PostgreSQL is from the USENIX File & Storage Technologies
>> Conference (FAST), March 31, 2003, San Francisco, CA.
> Ahemm,... Isn't the patent lodged on may 20, 2004, AFTER you read the document from the above conference?
No, the filing date was in 2002. I'm not sure what the May/04 date means;
possibly the date of the last activity in that patent file?
regards, tom lane