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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Pivotal Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Brand, Bentleigh East, AU;
Florian Schoppmann, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chunsheng Fang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jarrod James Vawdrey, Atlanta, GA (US);
Emily Kawaler, Ames, IA (US);
Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method determines the connectivity components defined by a set of relations over a set of data elements. For each first data element of a selected subset of data elements, a second data element that is linked to the first data element by a path of relations is selected as its representative, using a randomization process. A new set of relations is created by replacing each first data element of the subset by its representative in at least part of the set of relations.