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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2025
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Joseph W. Dain, Tucson, AZ (US);
Yu-Cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
Swaminathan Sundararaman, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Henri Muench, San Jose, CA (US);
Khanh VI Ngo, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jonas Alexander Pfefferle, Long Island City, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, according to one approach, includes: storing pointers in a vector database, the pointers referencing respective source data chunks on a storage device. Moreover, similar ones of the source data chunks are collocated in the storage device. In response to executing a similarity search, a pointer is received from the vector database. The received pointer is used to return a respective one of the source data chunks from the storage device. Furthermore, the returned source data chunk is transparently provided to an upstream application.