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Associative database scanning and information retrieval

  • US 6,711,558 B1
  • Filed: 04/07/2000
  • Issued: 03/23/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for retrieving data from a mass storage medium, said method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving a search command from a processor for said mass storage medium, determining at least one key as representative of the data desired to be retrieved from said mass storage medium, making an automatic pattern comparison between multiple bits simultaneously of at least one of said keys with a data signal representative of a continuous stream of data read from said mass storage medium, said at least one key not being representative of any particular data structure and not necessarily the same structure in which said data is stored in said mass storage device, and determining which data matches said at least one key.

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