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EP0127753
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| EP0127753 - Method for executing a distribution sort [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.01.1991 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.03.1997 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 23.04.1997 [1997/17] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1984/50] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Lindstrom, Eugene Emil 19592 Breamar Drive Saratoga, CA 95070 / US | 02 /
Vitter, Jeffrey Scott 12 Benefit Street Providence, RI 02904 / US | [1984/50] | Representative(s) | Ahlman, Bertel IBM Svenska AB Intellectual Property Department 163 92 Stockholm / SE | [N/P] |
| Former [1984/50] | Ahlman, Bertel IBM Svenska AB Intellectual Property Department S-163 92 Stockholm / SE | Application number, filing date | 84104079.3 | 12.04.1984 | [1984/50] | Priority number, date | US19830500741 | 03.06.1983 Original published format: US 500741 | [1984/50] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0127753 | Date: | 12.12.1984 | Language: | EN | [1984/50] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0127753 | Date: | 19.11.1987 | Language: | EN | [1987/47] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0127753 | Date: | 14.03.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/11] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.09.1987 | Classification | IPC: | G06F7/22 | [1984/50] | CPC: |
G06F7/24 (EP,US);
G06F2207/222 (EP,US);
Y10S707/99937 (US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1984/50] | Title | German: | Verfahren zur Durchführung von Distributionssortierung | [1984/50] | English: | Method for executing a distribution sort | [1984/50] | French: | Méthode pour l'exécution du tri de distribution | [1984/50] | File destroyed: | 20.04.2002 | Examination procedure | 23.11.1984 | Examination requested [1985/06] | 22.09.1988 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 23.12.1988 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.06.1989 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 15.09.1989 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.09.1989 | Fee for grant paid | 25.09.1989 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 15.12.1990 | No opposition filed within time limit [1991/09] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.04.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.04.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 26.04.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.04.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Documents cited: | Search | [AD] - AMERICAN FEDERATION OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETIES, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CONFERENCE, Dallas, 13th-16th June 1977, vol. 46, pages 691-695, Montvale, US; C.S. LIN: "Sorting with associative secondary storage devices" | [A] - IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 15, no. 3, August 1972, pages 1009-1011, New York, US; A.C. McKELLAR: "Sort process" | [E] - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, vol. C-34, no. 3, March 1985, pages 218-233, IEEE, New York, US; E.E. LINDSTROM et al.: "The design and analysis of bucketsort for bubble memory secondary storage" |