The software patent situation is getting more and more ridiculous by the day. This patent is so general, it describes basically any data-mining software (that may or may not be distributed over multiple computers.)<p>I think that all patents should have to go through the peer review process, unless there is some kind of extra-ordinary reason that it can't be made public:<p><a href="http://www.peertopatent.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.peertopatent.org/</a>