“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”

Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by lukeredpath on Sunday December 21, 2014 @08:03AM (#8779646)

I don't have the time to read it and verify but could this be a patent for the algorithm? If so, does it make any difference anyway?

http://www.google.com/patents/US20090043584

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by mistercow on Sunday December 21, 2014 @11:01AM (#8779999)

Minor point, but that's actually an application, not a patent. It might be a patent later, but it isn't yet.

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by rwmj on Sunday December 21, 2014 @08:45AM (#8779731)

Interesting that the patent was filed 17 years after initial publication of the algorithm.

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by networked on Sunday December 21, 2014 @08:55AM (#8779745)

The patent is for Metaphone 3, a new version of the algorithm that was released in October 2009 and improves on the previous ones. The differences are why the Ruby gem, which already has Metaphone and Double Metaphone implemented, got a discussion going about porting Metaphone 3 from Java.

Edit: wording.

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by charlesdm on Sunday December 21, 2014 @09:35AM (#8779829)

If he's the holder of that patent, "Lawrence Brooke Frank Philips", then he can enforce it no? At least in the United States.

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by arfar on Sunday December 21, 2014 @03:22PM (#8780812)

That patent has actually been abandoned. Can't find any continuations filed on it either. So as far as I can tell, he doesn't have any patents on the algorithm/process

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by pronoiac on Sunday December 21, 2014 @12:27PM (#8780233)

I thought best practice for software developers was to not look at patents?

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Re:“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metap... by chippy on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:52PM (#8780525)

Especially if they are working in the same field. I think so, yes.

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