Destined Entwining: Capturing My Devoted Beau

Chapter 793: Chapter 405: Very Good, Very Powerful (Second Update)

Kenneth’s eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Thank you, Chief Lydia! It turns out that foreign computer code patent protection only lasts for twenty years!"

Lydia nodded, but she didn’t seem relieved. Instead, she shifted her tone and continued, "However, even though they can’t accuse you of infringing on their code patent, they can still sue you for copyright infringement."

Patent rights and copyright are two different concepts.

Kenneth, because he was applying for patent and copyright licenses for his software, understood these concepts well.

He immediately said, "But the entire framework of this software was written by me, including the programming language!"

Lydia looked at his materials, regretfully saying, "...But this segment of core code does seem identical to theirs."

She picked up the mouse and highlighted that section of code.

Kenneth looked at the large screen opposite him, frowning, and said, "This is also where I’m baffled. I can swear on my life; I really didn’t use their code. Before this, I wasn’t even aware this segment of code existed."

"Then tell me, how was this segment of code written?" Lydia asked seriously, her smile fading.

Kenneth thought for a moment, called up all the versions of his software code from the computer, and conducted a comprehensive comparison.

"Francis, Chief Lydia, look, this AI software for post-production effects has seven versions in total."

"From the first to the seventh, here is the similarity comparison. You can see my logical thinking and optimization process."

His similarity comparison highlighted all differences in color while keeping identical parts in the original background color.

Francis and Lydia, both experts in this field, examined attentively.

For Kenneth, this was also his first time making such a comparison himself.

After reviewing the comparison of seven code versions, all three noticed the same issue.

"...The segment of code identical to theirs appeared in the sixth and seventh versions," Francis said, frowning slightly, "They were the last two versions. Why did you suddenly add such a segment of code?"

Kenneth was also recalling the situation at that time.

He looked at the completion time of the sixth version and pondered, "Let me think... Judging by the date, the sixth version was when I planned to bid for the post-production effects of the NewHuman Entertainment Company’s fantasy drama, and the seventh version was completed when I was finalizing the optimization and improvement for post-production effects."

"Nora can attest for me. The sixth version was completed with her collaboration. At the time, I asked her to try using my software for human-machine dialogue to handle the post-production effects of a five-minute segment of that fantasy drama."

"Because my software is AI software, it can enable the computer to conduct self-deep learning. So, this segment of code was spontaneously generated by AI, which means the AI issued commands to the computer to perform post-production effects."

"This segment of core code emerged this way."

"The seventh version code further optimized on the sixth version’s basis. At that time, I wasn’t satisfied with the effect produced by the company team; it wasn’t as good as Nora’s."

"So I planned to let the computer learn and simulate Nora’s human-machine dialogue process and then express it through the program so that the computer could perform post-production effects like Nora."

Lydia was somewhat amazed, "This means you have countless Lawrence Winters to help you with post-production effects!"

Kenneth nodded once, "That’s the principle. So I don’t understand why such a segment of code existed thirty years ago on their side. This is a program language enabling massive AI simulation processing for computers. Even our development languages are different; logically, such a situation shouldn’t occur."

The key is that he hadn’t used any known open-source code.

Francis pulled out his tablet and searched online for information about the software with the patent and copyright from the other side.

He puzzledly said, "Their patent protection has expired, but no one in the market uses this software, and no one has cracked it."

"It appears to be a very specialized fundamental language program used in the computer academic field. It’s indeed different from your application software program."

Lydia shook her head, "Different types are not proof of the distinction between the two software."

"Unless you can prove that their source code doesn’t contain this segment identical to Arvey’s program."