[Edu-sig] intell adoption problem

[Tim Peters]

[portal]
> ...
> (The key-less has table can be demonstrated... it exists and does make
> sense.  The hash function simple takes an ASCII string and "regards"
> the string as a base 64 number (this is the invention that PTO
> awarded to Bjorn in 2003).  Then some magic happens.

Is this the patent?

    http://tinyurl.com/3dj49

(if the USPTO search system changes, that's a compressed reference to US
patent 6,542,896, awarded April 1, 2003 -- and that specific date seems
somehow appropriate <wink>).