Process and apparatus for selecting an item from a database

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(12) Umted States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,140,560 B2 Dinn (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 20, 2012 (54) PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR (56) References Cited SELECTING AN ITEM FROM A DATABASE U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (75) Inventor: Kevin William Dinn, Mt. Kuring-gai 3,937,939 A 2/1976 Frenkel (AU) 5,128,672 A 7/1992 Kaehler 5,263,174 A 11/1993 Layman (73) Assignee: Kannuu Pty Ltd., Brisbane, Queensland 2 E/filkrigst 31' (AU) 5,496,992 A 3/1996 Madan et al. 5,633,912 A 5/1997 Tsoi (Continued) ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS U-S-C 1540)) by 309 days CN 1199302 11/1998 (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 11/990,338 _ OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) PCT F1led: Aug. 11, 2006 European Search Report dated Dec. 1, 2006 for PCT/ AU2002/ 01 114. (86) PCT No.: PCT/AU2006/001151 (Continued) § 371 (0)0), . . . (2), (4) Date: Aug_ 26, 2009 Primary Examiner * Tony Mahmoudr Assistant Examiner * James J W1lcox (87) PCT Pub. NO.Z W02007/019610 (74) Attorney, Agent, Or Firm * Jones Day PCT Pub. Date: Feb. 22, 2007 (57) ABSTRACT 65 P - P bl- - D The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for ( ) nor u lcatlon ata selecting database items from a database, Where the database US 2010/0010963 A1 Jan. 14, 2010 items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is gener(30) Foreign APPli¢ati0Il Priority Data ated Which includes one or more parts of the item identifiers. Selection of the one or more parts may be made and results in Aug. 12, 2005 (AU) .............................. .. 2005904378 the generation ofa display Of a funher one or more pans for selection. The further one or more parts may be selected in (51) Int‘ Cl‘ order to add to the selected one or more parts to build a larger G06F 17/30 (200601) part or Whole of an item identifier. Selection from a large list (52) i/00 707/76(52070067'?712)2 707/748 707/769 of item identifiers may be carried out in a relatively short time . . . ....... .. ; ; ; period (58) Field of Classification Search ...................... .. None See application file for complete search history. 22 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets Top 8 I . I I *1 An I Peter_Smit.h 2 5 1 drew__.I ones ne_P arkes ohng ane_S mith LHl_CO0k 1 1 3 1 1 S Jones 2 1 mith ykes

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