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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:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Bin He, San Jose, CA (US);
Hui-i Hsiao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Bin He, San Jose, CA (US);
Hui-I Hsiao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments include an iceberg query method, including processing the iceberg query using a bitmap index having a plurality of bitmap vectors in a database, eliminating any of the plurality of bitmap vectors in the bitmap index that fails to meet a given condition thereby forming a subset of the plurality of bitmap vectors and aligning the vectors in the subset of the plurality of bitmap vectors in the bitmap index according to respective positions of the bitmap vectors in the subset of the plurality of bitmap vectors.