creator Frieder, Ophir creator Agun, Salih Kagan An optimized document-indexing device is based on a pruned inverted index structure mapped to hardware. The device can be accommodated on a single chip and can be reprogrammed to accommodate index structures of different lengths and support varied posting-list sizes and varied term list sizes, thus sustaining high reusability and efficiency for a single device. The device can be used either as an internal slave component or as an external co-processor. The device controllers are efficient in resource demands and take only a minimal percentage of the logic and memory space of the hardware device. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-20T17:39:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7533245.pdf: 122963 bytes, checksum: 262fccae5a1adf33cdb37db0fe7d44e9 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-20T17:39:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7533245.pdf: 122963 bytes, checksum: 262fccae5a1adf33cdb37db0fe7d44e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-12 Illinois Institute of Technology 2012-03-20 2009-05-12 7,533,245 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2671 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access