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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wijnand J Schoenmakers, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ; 364300 ;
Abstract
A merging device is used for combining a first list and a second list in order to form a result list. All lists satisfy a linear ordering criterion. At the beginning of the actual merging operation, the second list is stored in a random access memory. This memory is divided into (kmax) memory blocks, the second list filling at the most the (kmax-2) non-largest memory blocks thereof. Efficient bookkeeping is achieved by means of two block list updating devices.