How would you replace trim? According to the text of the patent any method that removes leading or trailing space would fall under protection of this patent. The only way would be to manually remove spaces character by character every time you ran your query. I definitely don't like the sound of that.
Why would I need to replace trim? Trim existed before the filing date of the application for patent. The patent does not cover trim. Why would one think that the patent does cover trim?
According to the text of the patent any method that removes leading or trailing space would fall under protection of this patent.
No, it wouldn't. The 2. Description of Related Art section states:
Currently, TRIM functions, available in SQL, are used to remove leading and/or trailing space characters from data being presented to a user.
Therefore, merely any method that removes leading or trailing space cannot be what is being claimed in the patent.
