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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2012
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Morristown, NJ (US);
Nick Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Morristown, NJ (US);
Nick Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In embodiments of the disclosed technology, indexes, such as inverted indexes, are updated only as necessary to guarantee answer precision within predefined thresholds which are determined with little cost in comparison to the updates of the indexes themselves. With the present technology, a batch of daily updates can be processed in a matter of minutes, rather than a few hours for rebuilding an index, and a query may be answered with assurances that the results are accurate or within a threshold of accuracy.