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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/20 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2329 (2019.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01);
Abstract
A system comprising: memory storing a data structure comprising a plurality of items, each item comprising a key-value pair; a writer arranged to perform a plurality of write operations each to write a respective item, either a new item being added to the data structure or an existing item being modified in the data structure; and a reader configured to perform a group-read operation to read from the data structure any items having keys in a specified range. The writer is configured to maintain a global write version and the reader is configured to maintain a global read version.