Patent ID: 11886229
Assignee: TANIUM INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 30:
31. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein each of N respective machines in the collection of machines, where N is an integer greater than 1, is configured to perform operations including:
receiving and locally storing document frequency (DF) or inverse-document frequency (IDF) values corresponding to a set of tokens, wherein the set of tokens includes a set of target tokens, comprising the tokens in the target document corresponding to the terms for which identifiers are included in the similarity search query; and
in response to receiving the similarity search query:
for each respective file of a plurality of files stored at the respective machine, computing a similarity metric in accordance with the DF or IDF values corresponding to the set of target tokens, term frequencies of the target tokens in the respective file, and term frequencies of the target tokens in the target document.