Like I said, we can argue about prior art. But are you really saying that these claims cover a standard linked list?
Also,
> Go ahead and downvote me. Please.
Yawn. And you can't downvote someone's reply to your own post, btw.
Also,
> Go ahead and downvote me. Please.
Yawn. And you can't downvote someone's reply to your own post, btw.
That's exactly what I'm saying. For all the patent's talk of primary, tertiary, and secondary pointers, the "invention" here is a standard linked list with sentinels. If I hired a patent attorney to write patents against the programs I wrote for my freshman-year data structures course, the results would be much the same.
And I don't have any agenda here, other than to promote intelligent discussion about patents in a place where that happens too little.