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Contention management in a distributed index and query system

US10338975B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 11, 2017
Grant dateJul 2, 2019
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Expiry dateDec 21, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2201/81
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a method of contention management in the distributed index and query system, one or more index processing threads of an index thread pool in a distributed computing environment is used to index documents buffered into a work queue buffer after being received via a network connection. Simultaneous to the indexing, one or more query processing threads of a query thread pool to is utilized to process received queries of indexed documents. A sum of the index processing threads and the query processing threads is a plurality of processing threads. Responsive to the work queue buffer reaching a predefined fullness, the work queue buffer is emptied into an allotted storage space in a data storage device. The number of index processing threads is set in a linear relationship to a ratio of a utilized amount of the allotted storage space to a total amount of the allotted storage space.

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