US PATENT SUBCLASS 707 / 3
.~ Query processing (i.e., searching)

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707 /   HD  DATA PROCESSING: DATABASE AND FILE MANAGEMENT, DATA STRUCTURES, OR DOCUMENT PROCESSING

1  DF  DATABASE OR FILE ACCESSING {6}
3.~ Query processing (i.e., searching) {3}
4  DF  .~.~> Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
5  DF  .~.~> Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)
6  DF  .~.~> Pattern matching access

DEFINITION

Classification: 707/3

Query processing (i.e., searching):

(under subclass 1) Subject matter directed to methods of searching for (i.e., querying) data stored as a database in a computer or digital data processing system, including sequential searching, primary and secondary index searching, and bit-map searching of inverted lists or topological maps.

(1) Note. The combination of a database accessing method with a particular operator interface feature may be found in these subclasses. Operator interfaces, per se, are classified elsewhere.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

530+, for text document processing, per se.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

178, Telegraphy,

18+, for writing systems such as, for example, digitizing tablets.

235, Registers, 375+, for systems controlled by data bearing member.

345, Computer Graphics Processing, Operator Interface Processing, and Selective Visual Display Systems,

156+, for input devices such as mice, touch screens, etc., subclasses 326+ for operator interfaces, per se, and in particular subclasses 339+ for on-screen workspaces and objects, subclasses 340+ for windowing, and subclass 347 for

pop-up controls.

353, Optics: Image Projectors,

25, for selective optical data retrieval.

395, Information Processing System Organization,

12, for input means in a knowledge based system and subclasses 705+ for program compilers and procedural language translators.

704, Data Processing - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, and Audio Compression/Decompression,

1+, for machine translation and linguistic data processing and subclasses 200+ for speech translation methods and apparatus.