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Abstract
Among other things, a user is enabled to identify arbitrary data records of interest that belong to a file of data records that are expressed in an arbitrary format. Pre-generated information about the records of the file is used to enable a user to view a portion of the arbitrary data records that a machine is capable of displaying at one time. The amount of time required to enable the user to view the portion after the data records of interest have been identified is essentially independent of the number of records in the file. The file and the pre-generated information about the records of the file are each too large to be stored, as a whole, in a memory that is used by the machine in accessing the arbitrary data records in response to the user'"'"'s identification of records of interest.
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1-82. -82. (canceled)
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83. A method comprising
at a user interface and with respect to a data set of records not all of which are stored in memory: -
enabling a user to identify, by marking or filtering or both with respect to attributes of records of the data set, any arbitrary subset of records of the data set, based on pre-generated information about the records of the dataset, enabling the user to view records of the identified subset, enabling the user to identify, by marking or filtering or both with respect to attributes of records of the data set, another arbitrary subset of records of the data set, and based on pre-generated information about the records of the dataset, enabling the user to view records of the other identified data set. - View Dependent Claims (84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106)
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