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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth H. Eguro, Seattle, WA (US);
Zsolt Istvan, Zurich, CH;
Arvind Arasu, Redmond, WA (US);
Ravishankar Ramamurthy, Redmond, WA (US);
Kaushik Shriraghav, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A database management system (DBMS) run a host CPU and a hardware coprocessor accelerate traversal of a tree-type data structure by allocating reusable memory in cache to store portions of the tree-type data structure as the tree-type data structure is being requested by the host CPU. The hardware coprocessor manages the cached tree-type data structure in a manner that is transparent to the host CPU. A driver located at the host CPU or at a separate computing device can provide an interface between the host CPU and the hardware coprocessor, thus reducing communications between the host CPU and the hardware coprocessor.