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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2015
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Kenneth Rabolt, Cary, IL (US);
Nagarajan Karuppiah, Chennai, IN;
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to search datasets are disclosed. An example disclosed apparatus includes a count generator to generate a plurality of counts, the counts respectively indicative of a number of corresponding records in a database satisfying a respective one of a plurality of criteria present in the database; a grouper to assign first and second criteria of a search request to a first group according to a logical relationship between the first and second criteria; an identifier to determine, via the plurality of counts, which of the first and second criteria in the first group is satisfied by a least amount of records in the database; and a reduced set generator to form a reduced set of records to be searched based on the determined one of the first and second criteria satisfying the least amount of records in the database.