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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2006
Everett A. Corl, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Clark D. Jeffries, Durham, NC (US);
Brooks Johnston, Cary, NC (US);
Plyush C. Patel, Cary, NC (US);
Jan Van Lunteren, Adliswll, CH;
Everett A. Corl, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Clark D. Jeffries, Durham, NC (US);
Brooks Johnston, Cary, NC (US);
Plyush C. Patel, Cary, NC (US);
Jan Van Lunteren, Adliswll, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for reducing the size of a database includes a memory in which the database configured in a ternary matrix array structure is stored. A processor executing at least one reduction algorithm scans the database tagging superfluous entries that are subsequently deleted. The tagging and deleting are done in such a way that the logical contents of the original database is unchanged, even though the size of the database is reduced.