[AntonioLao]

Originally Posted by Fredrick

need to do a search on encryptions and patenting

Thanks. Last two weeks I have been researching at the University of Texas in Dallas Library. The bad news there are so many books on analytical theory of numbers that I have a hard time catching up reading them.

[Fredrick]

Originally Posted by AntonioLao

Thanks. Last two weeks I have been researching at the University of Texas in Dallas Library. The bad news there are so many books on analytical theory of numbers that I have a hard time catching up reading them.

The source to first go to is the website of the Patent Office: http://www.uspto.gov/

Your search does not need to end here, but if it exists with them, then you know for sure you cannot patent it.

[AntonioLao]

My latest find at the SMU library is a translated copy of Gauss 1801 treatise 'Disquisitiones Arithmeticae' which contains his contributions to number theory.