G06F 7/24
Sorting, i.e. extracting data from one or more carriers, rearranging the data
Official title: Sorting, i.e. extracting data from one or more carriers, rearranging the data in numerical or other ordered sequence, and rerecording the sorted data on the original carrier or on a different carrier or set of carriers {sorting methods in general}(G06F7/36 takes precedence)
G06F7/24 (Sorting, i.e. extracting data from one or more carriers, rearranging the data) appears on 678 US grants and 636 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Qualifying and sorting file record data571US 4,417,321 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1983
- Apparatus and method for sorting a list of items213US 5,218,700 A1993
- Method of facilitating computer sorting191US 4,939,639 ANorthern Telecom Limited · 1990
- Determining and extracting changed data from a data source169US 8,924,429 B1Palantir Technologies Inc. · 2014
- Efficient collation element structure for handling large numbers of characters164US 6,877,003 B2Oracle International Corporation · 2005