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== Patent issues ==

Tornado codes are patented inside the United States of America, see .<ref>{{harv|Mitzenmacher|2004}}</ref>

{{ cite patent

|country=US

|number=7660245

|status=patent

|title=FEC architecture for streaming services including symbol-based operations and packet tagging

|fdate=2010-09-16

|invent1=Michael Luby

|assign1=Qualcomm, Inc

}}</ref> and possibly also <ref>{{ cite patent

|country=US

|number=5617541

|status=patent

|title=System for packetizing data encoded corresponding to priority levels where reconstructed data corresponds to fractionalized priority level and received fractionalized packets

|fdate=1994-12-21

|invent1=Andres Albanese

|invent2=Michael G. Luby

|invent3=Johannes F. Bloemer

|invent4=Jeffrey A. Edmonds

|assign1=International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, CA)

}}</ref>.

== Citations ==

[[Michael Luby]] created the Tornado codes and has good descriptions on his website.<ref>Michael {{harv|Luby's website http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~luby|1997}}</ref><ref>{{harv|Luby|1998}}</ref>

== External links ==

A readable description from CMU (PostScript): [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/pscico-guyb/realworld/www/tornado.ps]

A readable description from CMU (PostScript): [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/pscico-guyb/realworld/www/tornado.ps] and another from Luby at the [[International Computer Science Institute]] (PostScript) [http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~luby/PAPERS/tordig.ps].

== Notes ==

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== References ==

* {{cite journal | ref={{harvid|Mitzenmacher|2004}} | author=[[Michael Mitzenmacher|M. Mitzenmacher]] | title=Digital Fountains: A Survey and Look Forward | journal=Proc. 2004 [[IEEE]] Information Theory Workshop (ITW) | year=2004}}

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* {{cite journal | ref={{harvid|Luby|1997}} | author=[[Michael Luby|M. Luby]], [[Michael Mitzenmacher|M. Mitzenmacher]], [[Amin Shokrollahi|A. Shokrollahi]], [[Daniel Spielman|D. Spielman]] , V. Stemann | title=Practical Loss-Resilient Codes | journal=Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual [[ACM]] symposium on Theory of computing ([[STOC]]) | pages=150-159 | year=1997}}

* {{cite journal | ref={{harvid|Luby|1998}} | author=[[Michael Luby|M. Luby]], [[Michael Mitzenmacher|M. Mitzenmacher]], [[Amin Shokrollahi|A. Shokrollahi]] | title=Analysis of Random Processes via And-Or Tree Evaluation | journal=Proc.of the 9th Annual [[ACM]]-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms | pages=364-373 | year=1998}}

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