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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:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Travis M. Drucker, Rochester, MN (US);
Hoa T. Tran, Rochester, MN (US);
Inventors:
Travis M. Drucker, Rochester, MN (US);
Hoa T. Tran, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for referencing a selection of data including a plurality of individual data points (e.g., database cells) are provided. Rather than store a reference to each individual data point, only sufficient information necessary to describe a bounding edge of the data selection (an 'edge definition') may be stored, thus significantly reducing the amount of storage. Depending on the application, edge definitions may be used to describe two-dimensional or higher order selections of data.