Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1995-05-24
1998-08-11
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707204, 283 81, 283 67, G06F 1730
Patent
active
057942382
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for manually and automatically accessing a plurality of data records in a large scale data array, comprising placing alphanumeric and other visually distinctive indicia on the exposed surface of the data records to be manually accessed; displaying a list of data records to be accessed; issuing a command to a drive controller to indicate the desired documents and data records to be accessed; determining that a desired data record is in a data drive; automatically transferring the desired documents between the drive and a buffer; ejecting the data record from the drive or otherwise indicating to the operator that the transfer is complete; and updating the displayed list of data records to remove those that have already been accessed; all without requiring an operator to input any keyboard information during the accessing cycle.
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Black Thomas G.
Lewis Cheryl
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