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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. 02, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707-5 ; 707-3 ; 707-6 ; 707513 ; 707516 ; 707529 ;
Abstract
An upper search on data to be searched is performed with a different condition from partial matching of a character string, and data items narrowed down thereby are counted. Then, it is determined whether the number of items obtained by counting is not more than the predetermined number of searchable items by partial matching Ls, and in relation to search results, a lower search is performed by partial matching of the character string.