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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. 07, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Marlin Jay Eller, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
727-3 ; 707101 ;
Abstract
A method and system for searching a compressed document while a plurality of character strings stored in the compressed document are stored in a compressed code. A query request is received, the query request is converted into the compressed code, and the converted query request is compared with the compressed codes stored in the compressed document. The initiator of the query request is then informed about the results of the comparison.