| 摘要 |
A digital processing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention processes items received from different data sources, specifically when a second set of items received from a second data source is related to corresponding ones of a first set of items received from a first data source. In one embodiment, each of the items in the first set and the second set is first assigned a corresponding digital value and then sorted according to a sort order of the assigned digital values to form a sorted output. The digital values are assigned such that items in the second set are grouped with related corresponding ones of the first set of items. Thus, items from different sources are merged (and sorted) based on the relation between the items. |
