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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Terri A. Menendez, Richmond, MA (US);

John J. Thomas, Fishkill, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/18 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1858 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a system includes at least one processor and logic configured to receive a request to process data stored in one or more index records in a keyed index of a database, determine an active key range for the one or more index records, and group the one or more index records into a number of groups for parallel processing thereof. In another embodiment, a method for utilizing a keyed index includes receiving a request to process data stored in index records in a keyed index of a database, determining an active key range for the index records, grouping the index records into a number of groups without prior knowledge of a key distribution for dividing the one or more index records into key ranges for parallel processing thereof; and processing the groups of index records in parallel.


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