The terms "calculating" and "computing" are both understood to include, inter alia, operations on numerical values and on data expressed in numerical form; of these words "computing" is used throughout the class. "Computation" is derived from this interpretation of "computing". In the French language the word "calcul" will serve for either word.
In those sub-classes which include simulators:
a simulator in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06 is concerned with the mathematics of computing the existing or anticipated conditions within the real device or system;
a simulator is regarded as a teaching or training device proper to class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G09 if the simulator gives perceptible sensations having a likeness to the sensations the student would experience in reality in response to actions taken by him. Simulators which demonstrate, by means involving computing, the functioning of apparatus or of a system are in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06, if no provision exists elsewhere. Components of simulators, if identical with real devices or machines, are classified in the relevant sub-class for these devices or machines and not in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06 or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G09;
a simulator may use the same time scale as the real device or operate on an expanded or compressed time scale;
models of real devices to reduced or expanded scales are not regarded as simulators.
The term "record carrier" is understood to mean a body, such as a cylinder, disc, card, tape, or wire, capable of permanently holding information, which can be read-off by a sensing element movable relative to the recorded information.
DIGITAL COMPUTERS IN WHICH AT LEAST PART OF THE COMPUTATION IS EFFECTED ELECTRICALLY; ARRANGEMENTS FOR HANDLING DIGITAL DATA (computers in which a part of the computation is effected hydraulically or pneumatically Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06D; self-contained input or output peripheral equipment Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06K)
G06F
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In this sub-class, the expression "handling" includes processing or transporting of data.
Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry (by merging two or more sets of carriers in ordered sequence Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06F 7/16)
G06F 7/10
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Selecting, i.e. obtaining data of one kind from those record carriers which are identifiable by data of a second kind from a mass of ordered or randomly-distributed record carriers
G06F 7/12
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with provision for printing-out a list of selected items
G06F 7/14
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Merging, i.e. combining at least two sets of record carriers each arranged in the same ordered sequence to produce a single set having the same ordered sequence
G06F 7/16
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Combined merging and sorting
G06F 7/20
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Comparing separate sets of record carriers arranged in the same sequence to determine whether at least some of the data in one set is identical with that in the other set or sets
G06F 7/22
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Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on continuous record carriers, e.g. tape, drum, disc
G06F 7/24
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Sorting, i.e. extracting data from one or more carriers, re-arranging the data in numerical or other ordered sequence, and re-recording the sorted data on the original carrier or on a different carrier or set of carriers (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06F 7/36 takes precedence)
G06F 7/26
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the sorted data being recorded on the original record carrier within the same space in which the data had been recorded prior to their sorting, without using intermediate storage
G06F 7/28
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Selecting, i.e. choosing digital data of a predetermined kind from a record carrier which has two or more kinds of digital data (special purpose computers for information retrieval, for compiling abstracts Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06F 15/40)
G06F 7/30
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with provisions for printing-out a list of selected items
G06F 7/32
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Merging, i.e. combining data contained in ordered sequence on at least two record carriers to produce a single carrier or set of carriers having all the original data in the ordered sequence (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06F 7/36 takes precedence)
G06F 7/34
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Comparing separate record carriers with data arranged in the same sequence to determine whether at least one of the data on one carrier is identical with that on the other
manually operated with input through keyboard and computation using a built-in programme, e.g. desk calculator
G06F 15/04
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programmed simultaneously with the introduction of data to be processed, e.g. on the same record carrier
G06F 15/06
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with a store which receives a complete set of programme steps before the individual data to be processed are introduced
G06F 15/08
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using a plugboard for programming
G06F 15/10
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Tabulators
G06F 15/12
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having provision for both printed and punched output
G06F 15/14
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Calculating-punches
G06F 15/16
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Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a programme unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programmes
G06F 15/18
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in which a programme is changed according to experience gained by the computer itself during a complete run; Learning machines (adaptive control systems Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G05B 13/00)
G06F 15/20
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characterised by a specific application so far as the design or construction of the computing part is concerned
G06F 15/22
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for invoicing
G06F 15/24
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for inventory purposes; for order filling
G06F 15/26
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for seat reservation
G06F 15/28
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for betting on the outcome of an event, e.g. a race, an election; Totalisators
G06F 15/30
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for band or analogous accounting; for calculating earned income
G06F 15/32
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for solving equations
G06F 15/34
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for synthesis or analysis of complex mathematical functions, e.g. Fourier analysis, computing or correlation functions