Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1995-12-18
1999-11-09
Amsbury, Wayne
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
395707, 395708, 36473603, G06F 1700
Patent
active
059832304
ABSTRACT:
A data structure, called an ordered sparse accumulator (Ordered SPA), permits sequencing in numeric order by index and dynamic alteration of the nonzero structure of the active column in sparse matrix computations during the sequencing operation.
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Gilbert John R.
Pugh, Jr William W.
Shpeisman Tatiana
Amsbury Wayne
Jung David Yink
Xerox Corporation
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