Patent References 3651483 Apparatus and method for selecting finite success states by indexing System for compressed storage of 8-bit ASCII bytes using coded strings of 4 bit nibbles Textual database system using skeletonization and phonetic replacement to retrieve words matching or similar to query words Adaptive data compression apparatus including run length encoding for a tape drive system Method for generating document using tables storing pointers and indexes Search tree data structure encoding for textual substitution data compression systems Method for use of morphological information to cross reference keywords used for information retrieval Compressing and decompressing text files Electronic text InventorApplicationNo. 445661 filed on 05/22/1995US Classes:707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)704/7, Storage or retrieval of data715/512, Annotation control715/531TextExaminersPrimary: Black, Thomas G.Assistant: Loomis, John C. International ClassG06F 017/30AbstractAn improved method and system for storing and retrieving information written as text. The method and system store most words of the text solely in an inverted structure, and the remainder of the text's information in an auxiliary structure. The structures can be quickly searched for keyword information, provide highly efficient storage, and can be reconstituted into the original text.Other References
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