Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database and file access – Record – file – and data search and comparisons
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-28
2010-11-23
Alam, Shahid A (Department: 2162)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database and file access
Record, file, and data search and comparisons
C707S728000, C709S201000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07840580
ABSTRACT:
A peripheral device that includes: a search condition transmitting unit that transmits a search condition by using a protocol, in which support for a method of designating to an external device the number of an information piece from which information pieces are returned when the plural information pieces exist as search results is not defined to be indispensable to all compatible devices; a receiving unit that receives information transmitted from the external device; a storage unit that stores a predetermined number of search result information pieces transmitted from the external device; a storage starting number determining unit that determines the number of a search result information piece from which storage of the search result information pieces is started; and a storage control unit that stores the search result information pieces received by the receiving unit into the storage unit from the number determined by the storage start number determining unit.
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Alam Shahid A
Baker & Botts L.L.P.
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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