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In article <...> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
>US patent number 4,956,809 covers using a single standard byte
>ordering for transfer of data between machines whose normal byte
>ordering is different.
      ...
      ...
>The simplest way to communicate data between different computers is to
>set up a convention for the ordering of the bytes in any multi-byte
>number.  If the big-endian ordering convention is chosen, then
>little-endian computers must reverse the byte order when they read and
>write network messages.
>
>This is exactly what is covered by US patent 4,956,809.
>
>If you find prior art dated 1982 or earlier, please inform
>league@prep.ai.mit.edu.

This is scary. Can a patent be valid, even though it describes
an obvieous technique common to many simmilar problems.
Can one patent a translator from 'normal' to polish to reverse
polish notation.  Or not in use yet things:
conversion from base  12 to 16 ,
or for future 3d displays, a projection algorithm to 2d displays...
   I know there are not many Einsteins in the patent office, but...
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