System and method for generating a relationship network - K Franks, CA Myers, RM Podowski - US Patent 7,987,191, 2011 - http://www.google.com/patents/US7987191
Would this really be usable in court? It seems super general to me, using a lot of common techniques. Silly question, is it infringement to use any part of the patent?
It is only infringement if you do something matching every part of some claim. There may be lots of stuff in the description, and that doesn't matter. That is, if a claim is a system comprising A, B, C, and D, and you do just A, B, and C, then you're fine.
