Pipelined architecture for global analysis and index building

US7293005B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Marcus Fontoura · Mountain View, US
• Reiner Kraft · Gilroy, US
• Tony Leung · San Jose, US
• John A. McPherson, Jr. · San Jose, US
• Andreas Neumann · Hamburg, DE
• Runping Qi · Cupertino, US
• Sridhar Rajagopalan · Saratoga, US
• Eugene J. Shekita · San Jose, US
• Jason Zien · Monte Sereno, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 26, 2004
• Grant date: Nov 6, 2007
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99943
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a technique for building an index in which global analysis computations and index creation are pipelined, wherein the global analysis computations share intermediate results.