Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Folded-hashtable synchronization mechanism
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Application No.: US14268951Application Date: 2014-05-02
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Publication No.: US09916372B1Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: William Nathan John Hurst , Timothy Daniel Cole
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NV Reno
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NV Reno
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
Computing devices may synchronize respective copies of a repository in part by sharing status information for records stored in the repository. Status information may be conveyed by encoding record identifiers in a hashtable. A hash function may be selected to have an output range equal to or larger than a number of records in the repository. A plurality of hash function outputs may be mapped to a storage location containing a sum of identifiers and a count of identifiers included in the sum. The storage location may be transmitted to a remote computing device, which may unfold the data in the storage location to identify changed records.
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