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OPTi Up on Favorable Patent Ruling Against Apple

Another pathetic US patent on the obvious? File and sue the company with the most cash. Downside zero, upside huge payoff.

For those blinded by jargon, here's a real world analogy for “Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses”:

Preparing for your turn at the cash machine, having spontaneously decided to get some cash ("master initiated access"), by looking at ("snooping") the queue ("cache memory") to see how many are in front of you, and taking the card out of your bag just before ("predictive") you're at the machine, instead of just after, thus saving a few seconds.

Maybe there's something miraculously clever about the implementation, but probably not.