After phylogenetics Microsoft patents personal data mining
2010 February 6
I hope you remember that some time back Microsoft tried to patent clustering phylogenetics methods which was a socking news for the bioinformatics community as community used these methods for a long time without any restriction. Now Microsoft had patented the personal data mining system. According to patent abstract which was accepted just last week
Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal data that can be analyzed in conjunction with data associated with a plurality of other users to provide useful information that can improve business operations and/or quality of life. Personal data can be mined alone or in conjunction with third party data to identify correlations amongst the data and associated users. Applications or services can interact with such data and present it to users in a myriad of manners, for instance as notifications of opportunities.
The patents includes some heavy weight names from Microsoft including Bill Gates. System tries to answer personal queries such as “What is the best digital camera and where I can find the cheapest one?”. What really troubling is the claims like the one below,
Furthermore, as will be appreciated, various portions of the disclosed systems and methods may include or consist of artificial intelligence, machine learning, or knowledge or rule based components, sub-components, processes, means, methodologies, or mechanisms (e.g., support vector machines, neural networks, expert systems, Bayesian belief networks, fuzzy logic, data fusion engines, classifiers . . . ).
Also I am also not sure how a patent was granted purely based on data streams without the looking on the background of algorithm used.
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