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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
May. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sergey Brin, Stanford, CA (US);
G D Ramkumar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shalom Tsur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi America, Ltd., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a data mining method and apparatus that dynamically initiates the counting of sets of items (itemsets) at any time during the pass over the records of a database and terminates the counting at the same location in the next pass. In this manner, the present invention begins to count itemsets early and finishes counting early while keeping the number of different itemsets which are being counted in any pass relatively low.