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That was followed by Justice Stephen Breyer's question, which suggested the Alice patent is describing a method of settling accounts that is in fact ancient."I mean, imagine King Tut sitting in front of the pyramid where all his gold is stored, and he has the habit of giving chits away," said Breyer. "He hires a man with an abacus, and when the abacus keeping track sees that he's given away more gold than he has in storage, he says, stop.... How is that [the Alice patent] less abstract than King Tut, if we had the same thing with a grain elevator, if we had the same thing with a reservoir of water, if we had the same thing with my checkbook?"

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