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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2005
Applicants:
Ronen Grosman, Thornill, CA;
Gary Valentin, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Ronen Grosman, Thornill, CA;
Gary Valentin, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for the traversal of empty regions in a searchable data structure such as a table. A plurality of elements are allocated in logical storage, wherein the plurality of elements correspond to entries of the searchable data structure. An indicator is maintained corresponding to contiguously allocated empty elements in the plurality of elements. An operation is performed on the searchable data structure by avoiding the contiguously allocated empty elements.