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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:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert M Mattheyses, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ; 3642319 ; 3642823 ; 364258 ; 364259 ;
Abstract
A method for determining the length of data strings on a distributed processing system is disclosed. The method assigns a sequential position value to each element in the string, the position value zero being assigned to the true head element. The sequential position value of each element exceeds by one the sequential position value of the immediately succeeding element in the string. After identification of the tail element of the string, the sequential value of the tail element is incremented by one to yield the string length.