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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jonathan J. Hess, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30699 (2013.01); G06F 17/30613 (2013.01); G06F 17/30657 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system searches a data collection using a bloom filter index to reduce the search scope to improve search efficiency, while at the same time allowing more flexible searches of the data collection using search terms containing any arbitrary string of data.