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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Offir Bakshitz, Redmond, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A host service holds a collection of contacts for multiple organizations, or domains. The system maintains an index made of one or more tables. The index may be sorted across multiple machines. Each table contains a set of elements, and each element points to a subset of the contacts that share a common attribute. When the system receives query to return at least one of the contacts in the collection, the system accesses the index to identify a first element having a domain that matches the domain of the first query and an attribute that matches an attribute value of the query. In response, it returns the contacts to which the first element points.