@Tim: I applaud your initiative - that's pretty much what you can expect, and to a certain extent they're right to protect their intellectual property. That doesn't mean we can't have some fun poking at it from the outside, mind you!
I imagine that when companies like Starbucks decide to "license" their T-DISC technology to sell their coffees, there's some form of NDA/EULA that's agreed to and they work together to set the optimal parameters for the product. It's thus unlikely that they'll release these programs to anyone.
That said, the patent is in the public domain, so it's pretty much there already!
Still working on deciphering the codes - I'm beginning to think there's an encoding scheme in the firmware that plays a role in setting the parameters beyond what's known in the patent.
I imagine that when companies like Starbucks decide to "license" their T-DISC technology to sell their coffees, there's some form of NDA/EULA that's agreed to and they work together to set the optimal parameters for the product. It's thus unlikely that they'll release these programs to anyone.
That said, the patent is in the public domain, so it's pretty much there already!
Still working on deciphering the codes - I'm beginning to think there's an encoding scheme in the firmware that plays a role in setting the parameters beyond what's known in the patent.