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Method for sorting data

US10089379B2 · kind B2 · utility

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12References

21Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Hong Min · Poughkeepsie, US
Yefim Shuf · Elmont, US
Hubertus Franke · Somers, US
Allan B. Lebovitz · San Jose, US
Christopher Crone · San Jose, US
Akiko Hoshikawa · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 18, 2008
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 27, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F7/36
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A sequence of one or more input objects are sorted by identifying a property that is exhibited by a sequence of one or more input objects, determining whether each input object from the sequence of one or more input objects exhibits the property, storing each of the one or more input objects into a buffer, wherein an input object is stored in a first buffer if it exhibits the property and an input object is stored in a second buffer if it does not exhibit the property, sorting each of the one or more input objects in each buffer, and merging the one or more input objects in each buffer into a sequence of one or more input objects.

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