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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:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
May. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
James H Troisi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tandem Computers Incorporated, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395607 ; 364D / ; 3642229 ;
Abstract
In a computer system, data records stored in nonvolatile memory are read into a volatile memory and operated on in a sorting operation. A tournament-type sort is applied, with the tree size dynamically reconfigured within the volatile memory as a function of the number of data records to be sorted. The memory space occupied is reduced by the reconfigured tree and sort speed is augmented.