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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:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alexander Channing Ho, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707-2 ; 707-7 ; 707101 ; 707102 ;
Abstract
An improved method and apparatus for creating an index is disclosed. All data repositories containing the data necessary to create the index are identified, and one of these data repositories is then selected based on a predetermined criteria. The predetermined criteria includes the size of the possible data repositories, or a determination of which data repository will require the least amount of sorting. The selected data repository is then used to create an index.