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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2012
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Choudur Lakshminarayan, Austin, TX (US);

Hansjorg Zeller, Los Altos, CA (US);

QiFan Chen, Austin, TX (US);

Ramakumar Kosuru, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30306 (2013.01); G06F 17/30699 (2013.01); G06F 17/3033 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of estimating a number of unique entry counts of an attribute in a database comprises, with a processor: identifying a sample of entries from an attribute database, determining frequencies of a number of input observations of the sample of entries, determining a number of high frequency values of the sample of entries, and estimating a number of unique entry counts of an attribute within the attribute database using a counting Bloom filter and based on the frequencies of the input observations and the high frequency values.


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