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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edward A Youngs, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignees:
U S West, Inc., Denver, CO (US);
MediaOne Group, Inc., Englewood, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707-6 ; 707 10 ; 709201 ; 709217 ;
Abstract
A method and system for efficiently searching a master database includes a memory device for storing a subset of the master database in an auxiliary data-base. A computer program receives an input signal corresponding to the search and processes the input signal with the auxiliary database to determine the presence or absence of qualifying search targets. Thus, target information is determined prior to actually accessing the database.