Ok... I'll say it... the technology patent process in the US must officially be broken -- if not simply ridiculous. Proof? Just check out US20130275363 which was awarded for the IDEA of a "meta-data driven data ingestion using mapreduce framework".
Seriously? Maybe I should file (and probably get awarded) a patent for the IDEA "get out of bed on workdays so you can go to your job" which is just about as obvious. Does the patent award recipient have a product that they have created to do just this? If so, is it a paid product or is it in spirit of where map-reduce belongs; an open-source project?
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