Patent Document ID: 5574826
Application ID: 08257340

Base Claim:
1. A method for loading information into a memory section of an electronic controller which performs inference operations according to rules, each rule comprising at least one preposition and at least one implication, wherein a number of membership functions are defined for a finite number of points within a universe of discourse, the method comprising the steps of: providing values of the membership functions appearing in the preposition of at least one of the rules, each value being indicative of a degree of membership; and storing in the memory section, for each of the finite number of points, the values of only those membership functions for the point which are not zero.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of storing comprises storing, for each point in the finite number of points, a memory word comprising an indication of each of the membership functions with a non-zero value for the point and the non-zero value.