(under subclass 1) Subject matter directed to data oriented accessing methods benefiting from the creation of ordered lists.
(1) Note. For clarification, sorting includes elementary sorting methods such as selection sort, bubble sort, distribution counting, and other methods, such as Quicksort, Radix Sort, Priority Queues including heap sort, Selection and Merging, and External sort.
(2) Note. This subclass is for sorting database data or files. Generic sorting, per se, is classified elsewhere.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
341, Coded Data Generation or Conversion,
50+, for digital code to digital code convertors.
712, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Processing Architectures and Instruction Processing (e.g., Processors),
1+, for sorter processing in computer and digital data system architecture and subclass 300 for generic string-level and bite-word order rearranging, bit-field insertion and extraction, and string length and sequence detecting.
