{"id":12737,"date":"2014-03-03T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12737"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T21:06:08","slug":"a-patent-on-seven-simple-lines-of-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12737","title":{"rendered":"A Patent on Seven Simple Lines of Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Basically, you look in one person\u2019s account to see if there is enough money to make a transfer, and if there is, you transfer the money. I\u2019ll bet you\u2019ve done that before.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, here\u2019s the whole program:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n10 LET account1 = 200.00<br \/>\n20 LET account3 = 300.00<br \/>\n30 INPUT \u201cValue to exchange for transaction\u201d; exchange<br \/>\n40 IF account1 &lt; exchange THEN PRINT \u201cInadequate value\u201d: STOP<br \/>\n50 account1 = account1 \u2013 exchange<br \/>\n60 account3 = account3 + exchange<br \/>\n70 PRINT \u201cInstruction to 1st institution: adjust 2nd account by \u201d; -exchange<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nThis implementation demonstrates that Alice\u2019s patented invention requires only seven simple lines of code, not complex programming or specially designed hardware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/news-blog\/blogs\/a-patent-on-seven-simple-lines-of-code\">A Patent on Seven Simple Lines of Code &#8211; Public Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, you look in one person\u2019s account to see if there is enough money to make a transfer, and if there is, you transfer the money. I\u2019ll bet you\u2019ve done that before. In fact, here\u2019s the whole program: 10 LET &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1001,874],"class_list":["post-12737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-basic","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12739,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737\/revisions\/12739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}