The Sources Invention

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The structure of invention

This paper explores the process by which radically novel technologies – ones such as radar, the turbojet, or the polymerase chain reaction – come into being. It shows that this process – “invention” – has a certain logical structure common to all cases. Invention is a process of linking some purpose or need with an effect that can be exploited to satisfy it. It may begin with a purpose or need ...

Field of the Invention

DATA DETECTION Kiyoshi Yokota, et al. in "A New Missing ATM Cell Reconstruction Scheme for ADPCM-Coded Speech', Pro ceedings of the International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 1989. Cointot and G. de PassoZ in "A 60-Channel PCM-ADPCM Converter Robust to Channel Errors', Proceedings of the International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 1982. D. Kim ...

The Software Invention Cube:

The patent system aims at protecting inventions. The requirement that a software invention should make ‘a technical contribution’ turns out to be untenable in practice and this raises the question what constitutes an invention in the realm of software. We develop the Software Invention Cube (SWIC), a classification of software inventions and use this classification to explore the meaning of the...

The Psychology of Invention