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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 10:43 AM EDT |
Nothing in these patents demands a hard disk. It requires only a memory system,
and a non-volatile memory section.
That includes:
static RAM, tape drive, RAID, CDRW, floppy disk.
Nothing in this "management system" requires continuous monitoring, it
merely has to be a system that is "capable of detecting faults" and
repairing said faults. It never says it can't be a management system started by
a manual process. So any PC which has volatile and non-volatile memory and has a
software program for checking disks for bad sectors and removing them from use
qualifies. You have to read the actual wording of the claims. Everything else is
fluff. The claims are controlling and nowhere does it imply the memory system
has to do this error checking and repair in real-time.
The only sticking point I see, is a memory system which detects and disables
volatile memory and copied a back up to static memory. I can't say my old XT
clone did that. But certainly the old 1970s and 80s mainframes did. You have to
go to the bigger iron for this patent to be fully debunked. But ALL the
mainframes from the 70s and 80s and 90s did EVERYTHING in these patents. Just
pick one, that's all you need is one. Here IBM S/390, commercially available in
1991, more than a decade before. The Sperry Univac 1108 (1964). Sperry Univac
1100/60 (1979).
For the frosting on the cake:
UNISYS 2200/3800 introduced in 1997, I could be wrong but I remember a tech
hotswapping memory block from this when it detected a memory system error once!
An entire drive went bad, the system routed around it and we hotswapped a drive,
once it arrived next day air from Unisys.
I don't know how these patent trolls can keep a straight face with these claims.
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