US PATENT SUBCLASS 707 / 6
.~.~ Pattern matching access


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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  DF  .~ Query processing (i.e., searching) {3}
6.~.~ Pattern matching access


DEFINITION

Classification: 707/6

Pattern matching access:

(under subclass 3) Subject matter directed to methods employing determination of equivalence of retrieval keys and stored data by matching characteristic patterns of one data set with one or more characteristic patterns of a candidate data set.

(1) Note. This subclass includes text searching and indexing, per se, for database. Text presentation data processing is classified elsewhere.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

500+, for document processing, per se.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

382, Image Analysis, appropriate subclasses for image recognition, transformation, and sensing, per se, and applications therefor, particularly

181+, for image pattern recognition.

395, Information Processing System Organization, 676, for identifying and dealing with run-time dependencies between executing programs, tasks, processes (e.g., data dependencies, control flow dependencies, etc.).

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

2+, for machine translation systems.

705, Data Processing - Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination,

7+, for operations research, per se, including systems directed to generalized linear programming problem solving.

708, Electrical Computers: Arithmetic Processing and Calculating,

490+, for arithmetical processing, per se, and subclass 212 for detection of a particular sequence of bits.

714,

Error Detection/Correction and Fault Detection/Recovery.