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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:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
May. 21, 1992
Irvin Richard Strauss, Jr, La Honda, CA (US);
Lam H Thai, La Verne, CA (US);
Borland International, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A database management system of the present invention includes a computer having a memory and a processor, a database for storing information in the memory as field values in a record, an indexing component for referencing a plurality of records by a value of the field(s), an input device for selecting desired records by entering a range of values corresponding to the field(s) (indexed on), and a component for accessing the desired records as an order set, where only records having a value within said range are included within the set. System and methods are also described for optimizing the access of information from the database management system.