Matt Sergeant wrote:
The use of a Support Vector Machine rather than Naive Bayes seems to be key to this patent's technique. SVM is not something that SA currently handles (although it would certainly be very nice if it did!)Rick Macdougall said the following on 09/11/02 14:51:Hi All, Saw this on one of the grc newsgroups... Does this Microsoft patent cause trouble? Here's the link to the document. http://makeashorterlink.com/?V27615462
Most of the claims in the patent relate to client side bayesian stuff. That, combined with the fact that we're not using Bayesian equations, probably mitigates most of the worry.
However I'm *not* saying there's no issue, but I suspect we'd be better off worrying about spam, than worrying about Microsoft. And if they issue us with a cease and decist, it's likely we'll just decist (and post something to slashdot).
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