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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Yuan-Chi Chang, Armonk, NY (US);
Mustafa Canim, Ossining, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for searching the top-K simple shortest paths between a specified source node and a specified target node in a graph, with graph data partitioned and distributed across a plurality of computing servers, the method including a parallel path search initialized from either one or both of the source and target nodes and traversing the graph by building likely path sequences for a match. Each computing server determines and forwards a path sequence as discovery progresses until the top-K paths are discovered.