Process and Apparatus for Selecting an Item from A Database
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The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting database items from a database, where the database items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is generated which includes one or more parts of the item identifiers. Selection of the one or more parts may be made and results in the generation of a display of a further one or more parts for selection. The further one or more parts may be selected in order to add to the selected one or more parts to build a larger part or whole of an item identifier. Selection from a large list of item identifiers may be carried out in a relatively short time period.
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57 Claims
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36. A computer-implemented method of selecting an item from a plurality of items, the method comprising:
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generating, by at least one computer processor, a first display, the first display comprising a part of an item identifier for at least a first set of items and a part of an item identifier for at least a second set of items in a database; and enabling, by the at least one computer processor, selection of one of the two parts of the item identifiers by a user using a user interface; generating, by the at least one computer processor, in response to the selection of the one of the two parts, a further display;
the further display comprising;an additional part of an item identifier for at least a third set of items and an additional part of an item identifier for at least a fourth set of items; and the previously selected part of the item identifier; enabling, by the at least one computer processor, selection of one of the at least two additional parts of the item identifiers by the user using the user interface; combining, by the at least one computer processor, the selected part of the item identifiers with the selected additional part of the item identifiers to create a larger part of the item identifiers; and displaying, by the at least one computer processor, the larger part of the item identifiers; wherein the parts of item identifiers and the additional parts of the item identifiers are text symbols and the additional parts of the item identifiers are shorter than complete item identifiers; and wherein the first set of items identifiers and the second set of item identifiers are mutually exclusive of one another and the third set of item identifiers and the fourth set of item identifiers are mutually exclusive subsets of the first set of item identifiers or the second set of item identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. An apparatus for selecting items, the apparatus comprising:
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an output display; an input; and a computer processor configured to execute a method comprising; associating the items with a corresponding item identifier; generating a first display on the output display, the first display comprising; a part of an item identifier for at least a first set of items and a part of an item identifier for at least a second set of items in a database; enabling selection of one of the at least two parts of the item identifiers by a user using the input; generating, in response to the selection of the one of the two parts of item identifiers, a further display on the output display, the further display comprising; an additional part of an item identifier for at least a third set of items and an additional part of an item identifier for at least a fourth set of items; and the selected part of the item identifier; enabling selection of one of the two additional parts of the item identifiers by the user using the input; combining the selected part of the item identifiers with the selected additional part of the item identifiers to create a larger part of the item identifiers; and displaying the larger part of the item identifiers on the output display; wherein the parts of item identifiers and the additional parts of the item identifiers are text symbols and the additional parts of the item identifiers are shorter than complete item identifiers; and wherein the first set of item identifiers and the second set of item identifiers are mutually exclusive of one another and the third set of item identifiers and the fourth set of item identifiers are mutually exclusive subsets of the first set of item identifiers or the second set of item identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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