Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" The device, software, and method of information processing are a further development of the ideas underlying radix, bucket, and interval sorting, and corresponding digital search. In particular, the device executes new or improved methods for sorting based on representing a key as a number or a string, new methods for constructing or transforming tables of counters or index tables in sorting and corresponding searching processes, new methods for determining the optimal bit depth for sorting, new methods and improvements based on normalization and reinterpretation, new methods for estimating the amount of work and for choosing an optimal strategy in sorting or corresponding searching, and other advanced methods.