The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert T Johnson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ittai Abraham, Tel Aviv, IL;
Abhishek Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard P Spillane, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinath Premachandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jorge Guerra Delgado, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep Rangaswamy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kapil Chowksey, Cupertino, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A buffer tree structure includes, at each internal node, a buffer having a compacted portion and an uncompacted portion. Insertion of data elements to the buffer tree can occur units called packets. A packet is initially stored in the uncompacted portion of a receiving node's buffer. When a compaction trigger condition exists, packet compaction is performed including a data element compaction operation. A buffer-emptying (flush) operation pushes the compacted packets to children nodes.