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Database search and record retrieval system which continuously displays category names during scrolling and selection of individually displayed search terms    
United States Patent5206949   
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Inventor(s)Cochran; Nancy P. (1 Linden Pl., #212, Hartford, CT 06106); Byrnes; Susan (East Hartford, CT)
AbstractThe method of variably displaying search terms includes continuously displaying the names of categories on a video terminal screen. When the cursor is adjacent a category, one data set or search term is displayed, that search term being one of a plurality of terms in a list associated with the particular category. The user displays another term from the list by actuating a scrolling control key input. To select a desired term and move to the next category, the user actuates a select control key input. Therefore, the display system utilizes only two control inputs to select a plurality of terms for a plurality of categories. One list of terms represents control commands that control, among other things, the output of data from the system. One technique of formulating the list is to obtain the data fields from a particular field, corresponding to the category, from all records in a data base. The retrieved data fields are then used as search terms in this dynamically formed list. The terms can also be grouped in fixed or static lists. A routine is used to segment or subdivide the data base search for the dynamic list or to subdivide the static list.



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Database search and record retrieval system which continuously displays category names during scrolling and selection of individually displayed search terms
Inventor     Cochran; Nancy P. (1 Linden Pl., #212, Hartford, CT 06106); Byrnes; Susan (East Hartford, CT)
Owner/Assignee     Cochran; Nancy P. (Nyack, NY)
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Publication Date     * April 27, 1993
Application Number     07/390,524
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Filing Date     August 7, 1989
US Classification     707/4
Int'l Classification     G06F 007/10
Examiner     Lee; Thomas C.
Assistant Examiner     Coleman; Eric
Attorney/Law Firm     Jacobson, Price, Holman & Stern
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Parent Case     This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 06/909,293, filed Sep. 19, 1986 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,879,648.
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USPTO Field of Search     395/100 395/600 340/721 340/723 340/712 340/720 366/200 MS File 366/900 MS File
Patent Tags     database search record retrieval which continuously displays category names during scrolling selection individually displayed search terms
   
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What we claim is:

1. A method of retrieving information from a database, comprising the steps of:

accessing a database containing records each having data fields searchable by using data sets that are categorized by categorical identifiers and sequentially ordered into a plurality of lists with each data set being one selectable data set entity in a list of a respective one of the categorical identifiers;

continuously displaying a plurality of said categorical identifiers at