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Sort and merge instruction for a general-purpose processor

US11221850B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Bruce C. Giamei · Poughkeepsie, US
Martin Recktenwald · Eppelheim, DE
Donald W. Schmidt · Stone Ridge, US
Timothy Siegel · Staatsburg, US
Aditya N. Puranik · Pune, IN
Mark S. Farrell · Pleasant Valley, US
Christian Jacobi · West Park, US
Jonathan D. Bradbury · Poughkeepsie, US
Christian Zoellin · Waiblingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 30, 2020
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 30, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/30192
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A Sort Lists instruction is provided to perform a sort and/or a merge operation. The instruction is an architected machine instruction of an instruction set architecture and is executed by a general-purpose processor of the computing environment. The executing includes sorting a plurality of input lists to obtain one or more sorted output lists, which are output.

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