Associative data processing system

Claim 1

IN AN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY SYSTEM, THE COMBINATION OF: A PLURALITY OF MEMORY REGISTERS EACH COMPRISED OF A CORRESPONDING NUMBER OF BINARY MEMORY CELLS EACH FOR STORING A BINARY LOGIC NUMBER, EACH MEMORY CELL INCLUDING MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY COMPARING THE LOGIC NUMBER STORED AT EACH MEMORY CELL TO A LOGIC NUMBER ASKED, A MATCH REGISTER COMPRISED OF A BINARY INDICATOR MEANS FOR EACH MEMORY WORD, EACH BINARY INDICATOR MEANS HAVING A MATCH STATUS AND A NOT MATCH STATUS, THE MATCH STATUS BEING RESPONSIVE TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LOGIC NUMBERS STORED IN THE MEMORY BITS OF THE WORD AND THE LOGIC NUMBERS ASKED, AND BEING SHIFTED BACK TO THE NOT MATCH STATUS WHEN A PREDETERMINED MISMATCH BETWEEN THE LOGIC NUMBERS STORED AND THE LOGIC NUMBERS ASKED OCCURS, AN ENABLE REGISTER COMPRISED OF A BINARY INDICATOR MEANS FOR EACH MEMORY WORD AND HAVING AN ENABLE STATUS AND A NOT ENABLE STATUS, THE ENABLE STATUS BEING COUPLED TO THE MEMORY BITS OF THE CORRESPONDING WORD FOR ENABLING THE MEMORY BITS FOR ACTION,