Invention Application
- Patent Title: Dynamic bloom filter for caching query results
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Application No.: US11475427Application Date: 2006-06-26
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Publication No.: US20060294311A1Publication Date: 2006-12-28
- Inventor: Yun Fu , Zhichen Xu , Jianchang Mao
- Applicant: Yun Fu , Zhichen Xu , Jianchang Mao
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
- Current Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Main IPC: G06F13/28
- IPC: G06F13/28 ; G06F12/00 ; G06F7/00 ; H04N5/445 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F3/00 ; G06F17/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for searching a corpus of information by utilizing a Bloom filter for caching query results. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of caching information from a corpus of information can include populating one or more Bloom filters with a plurality of bits representative of information in the corpus of information. A search request can be received identifying requested information from the corpus of information. One or more bits in the filter(s) associated with the requested information can be checked and the requested information can be retrieved from the corpus of information based on results of said checking. Furthermore, the filter(s) can be used to determine which information to make available to a particular user in a system where certain information is associated with or access is limited to certain users or groups of users.
Public/Granted literature
- US07548908B2 Dynamic bloom filter for caching query results Public/Granted day:2009-06-16
Information query