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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2009
Andrei Z. Broder, Bronx, NY (US);
Nadav Eiron, San Jose, CA (US);
Marcus Fontoura, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Herscovici, Haifa, IL;
Ronny Lempel, Haifa, IL;
John Mcpherson, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Eugene Shekita, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrei Z. Broder, Bronx, NY (US);
Nadav Eiron, San Jose, CA (US);
Marcus Fontoura, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Herscovici, Haifa, IL;
Ronny Lempel, Haifa, IL;
John McPherson, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Eugene Shekita, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes describing the thread configurations of a volume of well-ordered electronic message transmissions (EMT) and utilizing the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume. An apparatus includes a thread processor and a query manager. The thread processor analyzes the EMT threads and records the thread configuration data. The query manager utilizes the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume.