Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on individual record carriers

Full Title

Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled > Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on individual record carriers

Classification Context

Section:

PHYSICS

Class:

COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING

Subclass:

ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING

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• G06F 7/08 Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry
• G06F 7/1 Selecting, i.e. obtaining data of one kind from those record carriers which are identifiable by data of a second kind from a mass of ordered or randomly-distributed record carriers
• G06F 7/14 Merging, i.e. combining at least two sets of record carriers each arranged in the same ordered sequence to produce a single set having the same ordered sequence
• G06F 7/2 Comparing separate sets of record carriers arranged in the same sequence to determine whether at least some of the data in one set is identical with that in the other set or sets