Patent ID: 11914596
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. Enacted by each worker of a plurality of workers, a method of parsing data comprising a plurality of records, the method comprising:
receiving from a master an assignment to scan a data chunk of a plurality of data chunks;
determining, for the data chunk, information comprising:
a first position in the data chunk, the first position being a position of a first instance of a context-dependent symbol after an even number of instances of a context-varying symbol, the context-dependent symbol having a first, structural meaning in a first context and a second, non-structural meaning in a second context;
a second position in the data chunk, the second position being a position of a first instance of the context-dependent symbol after an odd number of instances of the context-varying symbol; and
an indication of a parity of instances of the context-varying symbol; and

sending to the master the information determined, wherein the master determines, using the sent information, a cumulative indication of a parity of instances of the context-varying symbol for all data chunks prior to the data chunk to determine whether the first position or the second position corresponds to a location of a first record delimiter in the data chunk.