<Scumbria, are you calling me a thief? ...I make my living selling my own IP>
Never heard about your own IP, and therefore cannot
judge you on thievery. However, the Rambus
is attempting a fraud of IP.
It becomes apparent from reading the "reviews"
dramreview.com
They refer to US 5,953,262 :
"A synchronous semiconductor memory device having at least one memory section which includes a plurality of memory cells, the memory device comprises: a programmable register to store a value which is representative of a delay time after which the memory device responds to a read request."
It is important to note that the abovementioned patent
is in fact a so-called continuation of US5841580,
which in turn is a "continuation" of US5638334,
which in turn is a "continuation" of US5513327,
which in turn is a "continuation" of US5319755.
Upon inspection of claims within the US5319755,
the "programmable register to store a value which is representative of a delay time after which the memory device responds to a read request" nowhere can be
found. If someone is able to find any clause related
to "programmable delay of responds", fell free to
post here.
It is apparent that Rambus lawyers found a leak in the
patent system to twist and patch original claims
in the process of "continuation", where the most
important things (originally overlooked, and therefore
do not constitute any invention) are added later.
Not mentioning that the programmable delay in
the Rambus device are used to compensate for
propagation delays in transmission lines while
the programmable delay in SDRAM is used to better
utilize the yield spectrum in manufacturing.
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