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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:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Ronald Fink, Huntingdon Valley, PA (US);
Inventor:
Ronald Fink, Huntingdon Valley, PA (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corp., Dayton, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems, and executable instructions are provided for selecting an optimal tree summary operation. Tree summary operations are evaluated based on their efficiencies in calculating a tree summary from a tree having a plurality of nodes. Moreover, in one embodiment, by using tree constants and processing constants the efficiencies of the tree summary operations are determined. Once the efficiencies of the tree summary operations are determined, one of the tree summary operations is selected as an optimal tree summary operation for calculating the tree summary of the tree.