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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:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bill Serra, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Antoni Drudis, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395603 ; 364280 ; 3642821 ; 3642831 ; 364D / ; 395611 ;
Abstract
A database system embedded in an operating system command. The system is invoked by operating system commands and uses no system resources except when performing a command. Searching is performed by binary search on a sorted file and sequential search on an unsorted file. New and changed records are appended to the unsorted file and the files are merged whenever the unsorted file becomes too long.