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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2010
Patrick Sokolan, Redmond, WA (US);
Dennis Doherty, Redmond, WA (US);
Claude Duguay, Kenmore, WA (US);
William Radcliffe, Redmond, WA (US);
Virgil Bourassa, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tammy King, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Sheppard, Monroe, WA (US);
Patrick Sokolan, Redmond, WA (US);
Dennis Doherty, Redmond, WA (US);
Claude Duguay, Kenmore, WA (US);
William Radcliffe, Redmond, WA (US);
Virgil Bourassa, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tammy King, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Sheppard, Monroe, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A search engine database may a segmented structure that preserves individual document references and allows updating as well as scalability. A set of segment managers may receive new, updated, or deleted documents and update a set of term matrices from which a published search matrix may be generated. The database may have a very large term dictionary and may use a hash function to create term identifiers without having to look up terms in the dictionary. The database may be maintained by many systems operating in parallel for high scalability.