I am a former employee of LSI, and I actually had a chance to participate in a meeting with one of the patent lawyers at the company. This patent was specifically talked about in that meeting.
1) LSI is not a patent troll. They generate a small portion of their revenue through patents, but most of that is through its purchase of Agere (cell phone tech patents).
2) The patent in-question is near impossible to prove that it is being used by anyone unless the code is available to look at. And even then would require going over their code to find the issue. Most lawyers don't want to put in that much work to find a violation, they would rather have more broad patents to litigate or monazite with.
3) As there is a good chance that there is prior art to this patent, it probably won't be used by LSI. Worst-case is LSI hits financial troubles and sells the patent to a troll that tries to use it.
In my opinion, it should be obvious to anyone skilled in the art that this patent should not have been issued and those who filed it and approved it have participated in a fraud against the US legal system.
Sadly, that's not how the patent system is setup in the US. It rewards companies who try to file as many patents as possible and see if they can get those patents granted. It falls on the USPTO to validate and grant those patents.
As the USPTO is underfunded and understaffed, a lot of possibly invalid patents are granted.
1) LSI is not a patent troll. They generate a small portion of their revenue through patents, but most of that is through its purchase of Agere (cell phone tech patents).
2) The patent in-question is near impossible to prove that it is being used by anyone unless the code is available to look at. And even then would require going over their code to find the issue. Most lawyers don't want to put in that much work to find a violation, they would rather have more broad patents to litigate or monazite with.
3) As there is a good chance that there is prior art to this patent, it probably won't be used by LSI. Worst-case is LSI hits financial troubles and sells the patent to a troll that tries to use it.