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US 2010/0250614 A1Published application
Storing and searching encoded data
AssigneeComcast Cable Holdings, LLC
InventorSergei Suslov
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for creating indexes of content and searching those indexes. The indexes include byte arrays. The byte array fields may be chosen to facilitate searching at the byte array level. During a search operation, potential matches may be eliminated based on values in the byte array. Deserialization may be performed on only the records that have not been eliminated.
Claims20
A method of searching an indexed collection of documents, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving a search request that includes at least one key;
- (b) comparing at a processor the at least one key to values in a byte array;
- and
- (c) eliminating potential matches based on values in the byte array.
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A server computer comprising:
- a memory module containing an indexed collection of documents,
- a processor configured to perform the steps comprising:
- (a) receiving a search request that includes at least one key;
- (b) comparing the at least one key to values in a byte array;
- and
- (c) eliminating potential matches based on values in the byte array.
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A method of searching an indexed collection of audiovisual content, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving from customer premises equipment a search request that includes at least one search term and a document field;
- (b) analyzing an index byte array to identify documents that contain the search term in the document field;
- and
- (c) eliminating a document from satisfying the search requests when the index byte array does not indicate that the document contains the search term in the document field.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.