Patent №
US 5,206,947
Granted
1993-04-27
Filed 1989
Owner
NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, A CORP. OF DE
Lab
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AI components
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kr
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
07375053
A stable sorting system and method for use with a sort accelerator having a rebound sorter as a merger is disclosed. The stable sorting system maintains an output order of records which have equal keys. This output order is the same order of those records as they entered the rebound sorter. Stable sorting is maintained in both the sorting and the merging operations of the sort accelerator. An additional byte is inserted between the key and the data of a record to preserve record order for records having equal keys.
AI classification
Ownership
NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, A CORP. OF DE
assignment · 50980991
Assignors
EDEM, BRIAN C., HELLIWELL, RICHARD P., JOHNSTON, JOHN T.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.