(under the class definition) Subject matter where the information is retrieved based on content rather than location; associative memories are also referred to as content or tag memories.
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359, Optics: Systems (Including Communication) and Elements,
1+, for associative storage systems where there is a holos:graphic storage medium storing information absent any electrical circuitry.
711, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Memory,
108, for content addressable memory in a memory accessing and control system in a digital data processing system and subclass 128 for associative memory in a hierarchical caching memory accessing and control system in a digital data processing system.