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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Joseph Hopcroft, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert Lovejoy Goodwin, Mercer Island, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The technology described herein provides a bit vector search index for a search system that uses shards. The bit vector search index comprises a data structure for indexing data about terms from a corpus of documents. The data structure includes a number of bit vectors. Each bit vector comprises an array of bits and corresponds to a different set of terms. Bits in the bit vector are used to represent whether at least one document corresponding to the bit includes at least one term from the set of terms corresponding to the bit vector. The search index is provided in a number of shards. Each shard corresponds to a subset of documents having documents lengths within particular a range of document lengths.