Data sorting method
US5121493A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 19, 1990 |
| Grant date | Jun 9, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 19, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99937
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for sorting data in a computer data storage system that has particular advantages in implementing a key index tree structure. The sorting method uses buffer-size substrings to sort strings of key records into a linked list structure that can be directly transformed into an index tree. The sorting method also may be used for sorting large sets of data records in place on a computer storage system.
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