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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:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Jonathan Brinker, Rochester, MN (US);
Patrick Leo Glenski, Rochester, MN (US);
Katherine Klein Richardson, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395898 ; 707-7 ; 707102 ;
Abstract
A method and computer program product are provided for rapid expansion of multibyte sort information. A master table is copied to working table in the system memory. User sort information entries are received and the working table is updated with the received user sort information entries. Then the remaining entries in the working table are updated to sort after the received user sort information entries.