Memory search apparatus

Claim 1

IN A MEMORY REGISTER CIRCUIT COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BIT POSITIONS, EACH BIT POSITION INCLUDING A THIN FILM TYPE MAGNETC DATA STORAGE DEVICE, MEANS INCLUDING CONDUCTORS INDUCTIVELY COUPLED THERETO FOR ESTABLISHING DIGITAL BINARY DATA IN SAID REGISTER BIT POSITIONS, A FURTHER CONDUCTOR INDUCTIVELY COUPLED TO ALL OF THE BITS OF THE REGISTER CONSTITUTING A SENSE LINE, MEANS FOR EXCITING THE RESPECTIVE BITS FOR GENERATION THEREBY OF SIGNALS IN SAID SENSE LINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH DATA STORED IN THE RESPECTIVE BITS, MEANS FOR RECEIVING SAID SIGNALS FROM SAID SENSE LINE, THE CIRCUIT INCLUDING MEANS FOR SEQUENTIALLY TRANSMITTING SAID SENSE LINE SIGNALS TO SAID RECEIVING MEANS, A SEPARATE SOURCE OF SEQUENTIAL SIGNALS REPRESENTING A GIVEN SERIES OF DATA DIGITS, THE RECEIVING MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR COMPARING THE SIGNALS FROM SAID SENSE LINE AND SOURCE FOR COINCIDENCE.