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US 2012/0084307 A1Published application
Efficient database search for unique indentifiers
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
InventorsGuangnian Wu, Tibor Fasanga
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Abstract
The invention is directed to providing an improved method of determining available identifiers (IDs) in a database, especially in the context of using available IDs for provisioning services in a telecommunications system. The method performs a database query for a range of IDs and stores candidate IDs in a local pre-fetch ID set.
Claims10
A method of searching a database for a unique identifier (ID), the method comprising steps of:
- performing a database query for a pre-fetch ID set for a predefined range of candidate IDs;
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- determining an available ID within said pre-fetch ID set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.