Re: [Exist-open] Node Numbering

[Sebastian B. <sb...@jb...>]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:31, Timo Boehme wrote:
> - second: the numbering scheme described in our paper is different
> in the methodology but quite similar in the resulting ids (using
> the streaming DLN variant and an improvement which reduces the need
> for 1-bit separators),
>    so if ORDPATH is patented our scheme could be used - unless the
> patent captures the use of hierarchical schemes in general

It is probably not, there is too much previous stuff that is very 
similar, for example lexkeys. Hierarchical numbering in general has 
been around for a while.

Sebastian